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

[storm stanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 2470

  --- Original Message ----- 
  From: Caius Marcius 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: S/D (Was: setting the cat down



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: <foxmoth at qnet.com>
  To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
  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

  Caius, I think you're misreading Susan (and I can, of course speak for her) the point is not that Lupin wants to assult HP, but the reluctance that many adults have to touch any children - even their own. the parrell is the scandal about alledged sexual abuse and scandal about Lupin being (poor bugger) a werewolf.

  have a look at some of the back posts on child abuse - we've discussed it alot because it is so central to Harry's experance between 15 months and 11 years old.

  storm



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