[HPforGrownups] Refreshing Innocence of HP Preteens

[Alexandra Y. Kwan]

No: HPFGUIDX 24660

Hello,

--- "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at juno.com> wrote:
> One of the lovingly refreshing things about the HP
> books is that it is
> devoid of any lurid details and has absolutely zero
> sexual innuendo or
> encounters. It makes it appropriate for children to
> read as well. (GoF

I just...find this attitude of how children
desperately need adult protection (that so many seem
to have) and how many people consider pre-teens
children fascinating.  Hardly two hundred years have
passed when girls at Harry's current age got married
to men...Barty Crouch Sr.'s age.  Ignorance isn't
bliss, but a pit waiting for the kids to fall in.  But
it's definitely none of my business how you raise your
kids; so, I'll shut up about this topic right now. 
Sigh, if not for that silly Vicky...

> books. Whenever I read the fanfics of HP and find
> lurid romances and
> slash romances I bristle, for this was not JK's
> intent - to turn her
> lovely characters into little sleazebags. I love the

I object to the implication that people who fall in
love are sleazebags.  JKR doesn't focus on the
romantic sides of her characters, true, but it's more
than obvious that they have romantic feelings toward
other characters.  If JKR didn't intend for any of her
characters to have romantic feelings, she wouldn't
have mentioned them in the first place.

little Alex

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