A response. Was ADMIN: Possible Threat to the HPFGU Family of Lists

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 86851

I hope and ask that this post make it on the list.  I'm just getting 
home and catching up on the posts and I feel I should be aloud one 
response as I was the one who started the whole Sexual Temptation 
thread.  Most of the content of this post is related to the Harry 
Potter, and to comments made in other posts.

If my thread has offended or scared anyone that was not my 
intention.  But the suggestion that I was encouraging and beginning a 
discussion of sex with a minor is wrong.

As I said in my original post, the age of consent in the UK is 16 
years old.  And as of the first chapter of the next book, Harry 
Potter will be a 16 year old British boy, in a story set in Britain, 
all written by a British author! For all you Americans out there (and 
I suspect those of you made nervous by my thread are Americans, no 
offence intended), this means as a 16 year old, Harry is able, if he 
chooses, to have sex with whomever he likes, whenever he likes and as 
often as he likes and no one will be charged with corrupting an minor 
or statutory rape.

I'm also annoyed because I'm surprised that mine and subsequent posts 
are getting readers nervous when this is not the first time threads 
have contained strong sexual themes.  I remember a thread a while ago 
about the suggestion of Umbridge being raped by the Centaurs. 
Interesting and very disturbing.  But I ask, is it really more scary 
to discuss the seduction of a legally consenting young man by an 
older woman, than bestiality and sexual torture?  Which is more 
likely to get the site shut down? OK now I am off topic.

Anyway that's it for now.  I find I can't go any further with out 
going off topic and I would like this to be posted for all to read.

Let's all get back to enjoying HP. :-)

Mandy, a grown-up writing to grown-ups on a grown-up web site