OOP: Boys & Girls in the Potter World

[Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 67171

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beccafran" <rbroeker at h...> 
wrote:

(snip)

> *grown women* do these things, even though we generally know 
they're 
> stupid. 16-year old girls cannot help themselves.
> 
Now me:
*Grown women* certainly do and sometimes they can't help it either!  
It seems that Cho at 16 is much more hormonal than Hermione, who 
doesn't appear to be at all (other than breaking down in tears every 
time Harry & Ron reconcile).  I thought it was well done.  I taught 
for 3 years and noticed much the same wildly different boy-girl 
reactions among 25 kids.  15 and 16 year olds can be pretty 
schizophrenic emotionally.

Claire