[HPforGrownups] Re: S/D (Was: setting the cat down

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2456


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Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 9:34 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: S/D (Was: setting the cat down


>
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
>
> > snip
> > Interesting. It's pretty clear that JKR has a blind spot about same
> > gender relationships
> >
> > snip
> I am wondering why you would say this...I thought the situation in
> PoA where Lupin seems to be afraid to even touch Harry and then (fast
> forward)has to leave the school because of  potential scandal and
> parental outrage was sensitive and  subtle and very moving...Or am I
> reading too much into it?


In real life I provide therapy to emotionally disturbed and
physically/sexually abused children - if I thought for one second that JKR
condoned  any kind of adult-child sexual relationship - which has scarred,
perhaps permanently, so many of the kids I work with - I'd join up with the
most hardcore fundamentalist group I could find to get HP banned.

I do think you're reading "too much" (i.e., your own little fantasies) into
it.  Adult sexual designs upon children are invariably depraved. Lupin does
not want to jump Harry's bones. Lupin's departure is clearly motivated by
societal prejudice against werewolves.

    Send those flames to:

        - CMC