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[davewitley]

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Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:

> but doesn't the Fat lady use the word Abstinence because she feels 
> bad about drinking a bit too much over the holidays?
> 
> "Abstinence." 
> 
> "Precisely," said the Fat Lady in a feeble voice, and swung 
forward to reveal the portrait hole. 
> 
> "What's up with her?" asked Harry. 
> 
> "Overindulged over Christmas, apparently," said Hermione, rolling 
her eyes as she led the way into the packed common room. "She and 
her friend Violet drank their way through all the wine in that 
picture of drunk monks down by the Charms corridor. Anyway..."
> 
> To me it's pretty clear she meant Alcohol Abstinence.

Oh, I don't know.  She could have been engaging in activities 
designed to lead to a future desire to abstain from monks, too. ;-)

JKR's non-judgemental willingness to have her hero use copious 
alcohol to persuade Slughorn to disgorge his memory suggests that 
she is capable of keeping quite diverse aspects in mind, so it's 
hard to deduce much about her attitude to sex.

David

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