Sexuality as a theme in HP (long)

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 119564


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, olivier.fouquet+harry at m... 
wrote:
<big snip (hopefully not Freudian)>

 I'd rather try to read between 
> the lines what it means psychologically.
> 
> 
> Many thanks to anyone who has read until here.
> 
> Olivier


Olivier, what a thoughtful post. I hope it generates adult discussion.

I'd just like to add a point that has always struck me every time 
that I read the books - the sexual imagery of the entrance to the 
Gryffindor common room. It is necessary for the children to climb 
through a hole behind the fat lady, into a warm, round womb-like 
room, decorated in warm reds. It is noticeable how often Neville has 
difficulty with this, but Ron and Harry are cool and confident with 
her - often leading her to complain 'are you going to leave me 
hanging wide open ?'.

This aspect was sanitised in the films, as with so much else - after 
all, it would be so much easier for a portrait to simply open like a 
door for them to walk through. However, JKR didn't choose that option 
in the books, consciously or not, I don't know.

Carolyn