Sex and Harry Potter ?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 77786

--- 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, he 
> will perhaps engage into love-affairs that will lead him to 
> experience intimacy with a woman
> 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 ? [Let me precise 
> something : When I talk about descriptions, what I have in mind are 
> not pornographic or crude descriptions, of course, but something 
that 
> remains to be found out : it seems almost easy for an author who 
> writes for children to write about such a topic as death, but 
> incomparably harder to talk about love, physical love].
(snip)

Ginger:
One of the things I love about JKR's writing is how well she lets her 
readers maintain their own comfort level.  Violence, swearing, and 
even "the kiss" are more alluded to than directly described unless 
the plot dicatates that the specifics be known.  

I think of the Graveyard scene.  I was surprised at the detail of the 
violence described, yet it is important that we know exactly how the 
rebirth took place.  At the same time, she doesn't describe Wormtail 
actually cutting off his hand.  She does it in a roundabout way.  
Harry closes his eyes as Wormtail screams.  Later we hear of the 
bleeding stump.  Enough to let us know what happened without a 
graphic description.

On to sex!  If anyone does have sex, I think we will only find out if 
it is important to the plot.  I *really* don't think we will see a 
full-blown graphic description involving things parents may not want 
their children to be reading.
  
I can see JKR alluding to a couple being gone for a while and 
blushing when asked for an explanation, perhaps followed by a "What's 
that smugde on your robe?"  "Oh, er, just, er, toothpaste."  Kind of 
an "inappropriate charms on a goat" kind of wink to the adults that 
kids would just read over.

Given what we know about ourselves, I think we can fill in the 
details and have a *lot* of fun doing it (pardon the expression);)

Ginger, who thinks an "adult" version might not be a bad read