SHIP: That Darned Kiss--The Problem With Reading R/H in GoF

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50300

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bugaloo37 <crussell at a...>" 
<crussell at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at e...> wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > She intends to keep the boy/girl stuff "not too gritty" and
> > on the funny side, like she has, so far, and I'm sure we'll
> > see more in the same vein over the next couple of books.
> > <snip>  
> > I don't think we'll see anything hardcore concerning
> > romance in this series at all.
> ><snip> 
> 
> I just wanted to write and say I agree with the above statements.  
> IMO, I believe the R/H ship with all its blushes and 
> misinterpretations of others and ones own feelings is rich fodder 
for 
> a rocky albeit humorous exploration of teenage angst/confusion.  
> 

I interpreted 'nothing too gritty' in JKR's "I want [the characters] 
eventually to be truly 17 and discover girlfriends and boyfriends and 
have sexual feelings...nothing too gritty. " to mean that they'll 
have 'realistic' relationships but that the books wouldn't delve into 
the *sexual* aspect of the relationships, not, necessarily, that the 
relationships wouldn't be angsty.

Erica