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

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 83285

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kneazle256" <kneazle256 at y...> 
wrote:
> 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. 

There are however two instances where we are lead to believe that 
there is some of that going on. In CoS Percy and Penelope sneak to 
the dungeons. More interestingly, in GoF Mrs. Weasley reminisces 
about how the former caretaker caught her and Arthur at 4 in the 
morning outside their dorms and beat Arthur up. What else could they 
have been doing out of their dorms at such an hour?

I expect we'll get some of that as the kids mature, but it will not 
get more explicite. JKR wants to keep this readable by 9 year olds. 
This puts certain restrictions on what she can put in print.

Incidentally, I have a 15 year old boy and he is fairly clueless too 
when it comes to girls. I think the portrayal of the kids in that 
respect is actually fairly realistic for their age.

Salit