Plot Devices I Like and SEX in HP

[meboriqua at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25178

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
>  Plot Devices We Don't Want to See Again for A Bit
> 
>  Add your own to the bottom, and pass it on.
> 
>  Animagus (Ali)
>  Polyjuice Potion (Amanda)
>  The Time Turner (Cindy)
>  Veritaserum (Cindy)
>  Marauder's Map (Ali again)
>  Draco is Evil (Jenny)
>  Seeming Good Guy is Evil (Jenny)
>  Moaning Myrtle (Haggrid)
>  Snape doesn't believe Harry (Kelly)
>  Part Non-Human teachers (MMM)
>  Voldemort's Evil Overlord antics in GoF (MMM)
>  Seeming Evil Guy is Good (MMM)
>  Dobby and Winky (Luce)
>  Dumbledore Explains It All (Sam)
>  Anybody screaming, 'Mad, am I??' (katzefan)
> 
> The Pensieve.  Great idea, but you only get to use it once, Jo.

and Cynthia just added the Whomping Willow.

Wow!  You know what?  I actually like almost all of these things.  I 
mean, I stand by my statement that I don't want cookie-cutter bad or 
good guys, but I want someone else to become an Animagus, I want to 
see the Marauder's Map again, I get a kick out of Moaning Myrtle and I 
am wringing my hands in anticipation to find out what will become of 
the House Elf plight.

I don't think JKR will use any of these plot devices the way she used 
them before, but I think most of them will still play a part in future 
stories.  They are all part of the magic world, after all.  Someone 
wrote that it might be interesting to learn how one does become an 
Animagus.  I agree!  Veritaserum can also be used again, but maybe not 
so seriously.  As far as Polyjuice Potion goes, even though I know 
people groaned when they found out Moody was really Crouch, who 
suspected it?  I didn't!  I thought it was a nice contrast to the way 
the trio used PP in CoS.  This time around it wasn't funny and it 
worked all too well.

SEX-
Bente wrote that she (I'm assuming you're a she, though I don't know 
why) wouldn't let a child read "The Story of O" because of the 
impression the book might make.  Now, when I was a kid, we ALL read 
Judy Blume books - the dirtier, the better.  I breezed through 
"Forever" but it sure didn't make me run out and have sex.  If I did, 
I think it would have been due to other, more serious problems in my 
life, not simply because I wanted to live like a Judy Blume character.  
My mom had a rule in our house:  No censorship of any kind.  I read 
whatever I wanted and reading Judy Blume made no more impression on me 
than what I had to read for school.  

To look at it in relation to HP, I haven't seen on the news a story 
about some kid trying to fly a broomstick off the roof because he 
thought he could "fly like Harry Potter".  When it comes to reading, 
we don't give kids enough credit.  They really do know the difference 
between reality and fantasy, and they fantasize as much as *we* do.

--jenny from ravenclaw********************