Article commentary (was: SHIPPING NEWS!)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sundrip77" <becky at m...> wrote:
> I tried following the previous itv link but I kept getting an error 
> message.  However, I found an article in The Times which contains 
> most of the quotes at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-
> 2001593740,00.html  It makes it clear that the questions Harry is 
> asking are in relation to his parents.  It also includes the quote 
> about hormones and "boy-girl stuff" but omits the Cho portion which 
> makes me even more suspicious about whether that part came from JKR 
> herself.

<snippage from article with comments>
"Sex and death will be the next challenges for Harry Potter, she says.
The fifth book will see ?more boy-girl stuff, inevitably. They are 15
now, hormones working overtime.?"

I certainly hope they don't LITERALLY mean sex, but I think that's
just my American mindset affecting that interpretation.  I certainly
hope it's an exaggeration to classify it as a "challenge" the same
calibur as having someone die.  I was really anti-Cho leading up to
GoF's release, basically saying Rowling would never take such an
obvious route (boy was I wrong), but I enjoyed it somewhat in GoF--The
Unexpected Task is still one of my favorite chapters that still makes
me laugh out-loud every reading.  I think the teenage-boy awkwardness
is quite cute right now because it was presented in very humourous
manner.  I think I will continue to enjoy it as long as it remains
relatively in this tone.

"Readers should be prepared to see a popular character meet a grisly end."

Grisly?  Yikes--what a word!

"Rowling adds: ?Harry has to ask some questions that I hope the reader
will think, ?Well why hasn?t he asked this before?? Harry finds out a
lot more about his past."

In the other article, this quote was right along with all the romance
stuff, so I had a completely different interpretation of what they
were talking about.  Glad it makes sense now.  I think this will be
the obvious stuff--"Why am I so special?  Why did Voldemort try to
kill me?  What's exactly going on in my life?" etc.

-Megan