[HPforGrownups] rumors

[JamiDeise at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20083

In a message dated 6/3/2001 11:14:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Schlobin at aol.com writes:

<< I agree that JKR will not talk about sex per se or explicit sex. 
 Goodness, she hasn't even spoken about people having non-lesbian/gay
 affairs outside of marriage! (I know some will attribute it to 
 Harry's POV, but it isn't even gossip among the children). In some 
 ways, her books are almost Victorian. >>

I find it a bit unusual too ... especially in GoF, when Harry, Hermione and 
Ron are all 14, and Harry has a raging crush on Cho.  On the other hand, 
being that it is Harry's POV ... Harry probably knows the least about sex 
than any boy his age, wizard or not. Do you think Vernon and Petunia sat him 
down and explained the facts of life to him? I'm guessing no ... and since he 
was so deprived of TV even before going to Hogwarts, no Britney Spears to 
capture the imagination either. And while I wouldn't be surprised if Dudley, 
having been told about the birds and bees by an enthusiastic Uncle Vernon -- 
he'll be fighting them off with a stick, that boy of mine! -- then sneeringly 
passed the word onto Harry, Harry probably closed his eyes, for one quick 
moment imagined Vernon and Petunia creating Dudley, and put the image out of 
his mind forever.

Poor Harry can hardly bear overhearing Hagrid's sweet nothings to Maxime ... 
can you imagine his anguish if Lupin and Sirius had to explain to him their 
"love that dare not speak its name?" 

Jami