Humor and Sexuality (was : Sexuality as a theme)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 119642


> catkind - in the spirit of pure mischief. Sorry Olivier, I'll 
reply to your more serious points over the weekend if I have time.

Potioncat:
I snipped Catkind's post but not because I didn't like it.

The sexuality as a theme has a good deal of merit, whether or not it 
all fits, or whether or not JKR intended it.  Oliver posted it in a 
Literature critique format...the type I have dim memories of from 
university days. (Those were the days, my friends...)

A while back a thread followed the idea of sexual metaphor for the 
memory of Snape's problems with the broom and the laughing girl. It  
had never crossed my mind, and I appeared to be the only one naive 
enough not to think it.

Being the mother of a teenaged boy, I am sure that at Hogwarts the 
innuendoes and jokes concerning brooms, wands and cauldrons would be 
too numerous to count. And more than likely the boys at least would 
be choking back laughter in any number of classes. Given the type of 
humor we see on this side of the pond in popular fiction, I'm very 
glad JKR didn't decide to have her characters engaging in these 
jokes. Star charts and Uranus were quite enough.

Potioncat (not as prim as she just made herself sound, but very, 
very naive.)