Sexuality as a theme

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 119637


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, 
olivier.fouquet+harry at m... wrote:

> Many posters
>  >Does anyone agree that Lupin could represent paedophilia?
> 
> I don't. As Siriusly Snapey Susan correctly remarked in her 
answer,  this is Isabelle Smadja idea. I mentioned it for the sake 
of  completeness.<
> 

Pippin:
I don't think Lupin represents paedophilia. I do think Rowling 
writes knowing that  most children have been taught that they 
shouldn't accept sweets from strangers and that there are adults 
who might want to touch them in an inappropriate way. I think 
Lupin's actions  deliberately allude to this in order to throw 
suspicion on him.

 In terms of PoA, they are red herrings. The chocolate is benign, 
and Lupin neither lusts for Harry nor  is he possessed by 
Voldemort as a first time reader might fear. In terms of the 
septology, we don't know yet. 

I think Rowling is alluding to paedophilia, without making Lupin 
himself a paedophile, in order to remind the reader  that people 
who show great sympathy and concern for children may still be 
capable of using them for their own ends.

Rowling has named Lolita as one of her favorite books, calling it 
a "great and tragic love story" so the idea that one might present 
a paedophile as a sympathetic character is not foreign to her.

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/0500-heraldsun-te
mpleton.html

Pippin