Fiction type

[becky at mackenab.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24761

This may have been posted before- I have been reading the back 
messages but it is a rather daunting task.  At any rate- all the 
discussion of sex and innocence has brought to mind a new thought.  
At heart, the Harry Potter books are at least in part romantic 
fiction.  Romantic in the broadest sense of the word.  She has 
characters that come down as evil or heroic to almost unbelievable 
degrees, there is a tragic hero, castles, dragons, and magic (of many 
sorts).  It is also somewhat gothic with a number of plot elements 
relating to secret or mysterious pasts and locked rooms.  This brings 
me to my point- when building literature, based to some extent, on 
authors such as Bronte and Austen, as well as the classic children's 
literature which she read as a child- could she even concieve to 
include sex as a prominent aspect of the plot?  Particuarly, as she 
has said, she has such an easy time slipping back to her 12 year old 
state and, at least when I was twelve (not that long ago), I 
considered sex a rather vaugue odditity and based my daydreams on 
romantic ideals where the steamiest scenes involved boys throwing 
pebbles at my window and then serenading me.