Sex and Harry Potter ?

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No: HPFGUIDX 77721

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aamonn2000" <aamonn2000 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Here it is. As time is running, the kids are no longers *kids* 
> anymore. In book 7, Harry will be something like seventeen years-
old. 
> As we live in a real world and so does Harry too (at least this is 
> what J.K. Rowling wants us to believe - thanks to the Dursleys !), 
he 
> will perhaps engage into love-affairs that will lead him to 
> experience intimacy with a woman(1) (I don't really know if such an 
> euphemism sounds odd or not in english, so correct me if it's not 
an 
> appropriate way of setting things forth). 
> 
> Now my question is : do you think that it should be possible or 
even 
> desirable for an author like J.K.R. who, to be sure, not only 
writes 
> for children but also writes for them, to introduce such a topic 
> (and, why not, descriptions - for example his first experience with 
a 
> woman ; after all we already got the description of what really 
seems 
> to be his very first kiss) in her future novels ? <snip> 
> After all, she has already written about such topics as death, 
> murder, betrayal, injustice, greed, cowardice, etc. I don't believe 
> that, as an essential part of love, sexual relationships should be 
> automatically considered as being more obscene - in a book - than 
> those topics (at least, this is MHO).
> 
> AAm.
> 
Laura:

Your English is perfect-don't worry! But I hope JKR doesn't write 
such a scene.  It's not because I don't think she couldn't do it 
sensitively.  Nor do I think that it would automatically be dirty.  I 
do think, though, that it doesn't necessarily fit into the list you 
gave of the other difficult topics the books have already addressed.

Part of being an adolescent anywhere is learning to handle the more 
hurtful and disappointing aspects of human behavior.  Betrayal, 
injustice, greed and cowardice are all on display daily at your local 
public or private high school.  Even death can happen in a teenager's 
life-grandparents and parents die sometimes, not to mention other 
students.  (Murder, of course, is not so ordinary, thank goodness, 
but kids do experience divorce, which can get pretty ugly at times.  
And besides, these are fantasy stories, so the evils the kids face 
would be larger than those most of us confront in ordinary life.)  
And what would a portrait of growing up be without elements of 
sexuality and the ups and downs of romantic relationships?  But 
although I'd venture to say that all teenagers have sexual feelings, 
not all teenagers have sex before they leave high school.  I don't 
think JKR would need to write an actual sex scene to portray exactly 
what it feels like to suffer teenage sexual angst.  In fact, such a 
scene might be something of a distraction as the climactic (you 
should forgive the expression) battle approaches.  I just feel that a 
sex scene would be out of place.  

And besides, if it were a het sex scene, all the Harry/Draco slashers 
would go into mourning.  Given that I live with one such, I'm not up 
for it.  :-)