No Sex, Please, We're British - The Crouch Family Saga

[grannybat84112]

No: HPFGUIDX 83273

It is, indeed, a tough job, but June has to do it.

> > To bring this back to canon: I don't believe Hogwarts even has a 
> > sex ed class. JKR is so timid about broaching subjects sexual  
> > that she had Harry's first kiss take place off-page.
> > 
> > Is this reluctance to address sexual issue reflective of 
> > the larger British society, or is it meant to express 
> > yet another discomforting little social flaw that the Wizarding 
> > World refuses to talk about?
> 
> >...The issues of blood 
> > purity, Squibs, and family allegiances cannot be divorced from
> > sexuality. The looming war will force these issues to explode,  
> > and I'm betting that more than one dirty little skeleton will 
> > fall out of more than one family closet. (Crouch/Winky, anyone?)
 
 June:
> Now that's twisted...
 
Thanks, but I didn't originate that SHIP. The Elkins did, in her 
monumental Crouch Family Saga. The Crouch/Winky possibility is 
explored in Post #47966. 

If you haven't read all nine parts of this epic plus the replies, run-
-don't walk--thru your HP4GU archive search. Don't be put off by the 
sheer size of the posts; the writing alone is worth the time and 
effort. She may not mean to, but The Elkins sets the bar for literary 
analysis on this list.

 
> > It would help, I think, to have a baseline from which to 
> > theorize. Would any of the Brits care to expound on the general  
> > state of sex education in the British boarding school system? 
 
 June:
> 
> Hogwarts imho is set sometime about twenty years ago... which sorta 
> takes me back to school. ....  Sex education - zero, zilch, unless  
> you count the sex life of an amoeba.... No, friends, I found 
> out most of my info from whispered discussions with other girls who 
> had more advanced thinking parents than me (
> 
> Now in Hogwarts they aren't even looking at amoebas ....  So the 
>nearest you will get to 
> any discussion of sex is going to be the kind of wink wink, snigger 
> snigger, double entendre that we repressed brits excel in.  "Can I 
> see Uranus, Lavender?" and that kind of thing.  
 
I suspected as much. Still, I'd like to hear from a few more 
repressed Brits before I launch into this wholesale.


> *One day I might just prepare a master list of the British 
> euphemisms for sex. Well perhaps not.  

Please do. We may bump into a couple of those phrases in Book 6.

 
> ** Le Vice Anglais is the french (who are bloody weird themselves) 
> being rude about the fact that the stripes on the old school tie  
> are often matched by the stripes on the old school bottom.

Rep striped pants? That's something I haven't seen on the PBS 
mysteries. Yet.

Grannybat
who's wishing The Elkins
would quit scraping floral wallpaper
and start digging thru
the Black family closets