No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 83269

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kneazle256" <kneazle256 at y...> 
wrote:
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> I am not even sure what 'dating' means at Hogwarts. Do they go to 
> Hogsmeade together? Chat in hallways? Sneak into a broom closet 
every > now and again? 
> 
> The students are rarely, if ever, really alone. The Common Rooms 
are > always full, and they sleep in dorms. Sneaking out seems 
extremely > hazardous. Even the trio, with an invisibility cloak and 
the > maruaders map, have any number of close shaves sneaking around 
after > hours. Plus there Filch, Mrs Norris, ghosts and Peeves always 
seem to > be wandering around 24 hrs a day. 
> Kneazle

I'm not a Brit, either, but there are a lot of things that, it seems 
to me, are left out of the books, perhaps because adults would think 
that it's not be appropriate for a child to read about such goings-
on, but which happen so often. A friend of mine went to an excellent 
boarding school here in the states for high school and described it 
as "a four year orgy of sex and snorting Ritilin." One hears about 
certain unsavory practices at unisex schools, especially British 
ones, yet there haven't been any jokes at all so far about the older 
kids "buggering the first years." Finally in OotP, we got some 
refernces to parties including cases of firewhiskey and certain 
stimulents used for studying for OWLS. I'm not suggesting that the 
series should turn into "Fear and Loathing in Hogwarts," but I'm glad 
to see intimations of real life in there. 

I think the other reason that we haven't seen much of the party life 
at Hogwarts is that the books are written from HP's POV, and HP has 
bigger problems to deal with, like LV trying to kill him. He is, to 
some extent, alienated by his past and his fate. 

TK -- Tigerpatronus