rape was Love Potions (was: Re: Fred and George)

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> Susan McGee wrote:

> Sure..if someone comes into your home, tries to rape you and you 
ijure them that's self defense. Of course...
> 
> But in the HP universe, I don't think a love potion can actually 
be characterized as a rape drug....
> 
> Rape is a crime of violence, not sex. It involves forcing someone 
else to have sex, or sexual contact... It involves degrading, 
humiliating, and exerting power over the other person.
> 
> If someone is given a love potion, they are indeed forced to be 
infatuated with the person who gives it to them...and that is 
wrong... but the person who receives the love potion will not 
automatically become a rapist....that would be a behavioral choice 
of acting on feelings of love/attraction/obsession and would depend 
on the character and choces of that person...
> 
> The person who gave the love potion would not be a rapist unless 
they engaged in sexual contact/intercourse with the person to whom 
they gave the love potion...it's unethical, and it's wrong, but 
there's another step to rape.


**Marcela now:  Surely you haven't forgotten about Merope Gawn 
giving the love potion to Tom Riddle Sr, have you?

Whatever you may want to think of and/or however you may want to 
call Merope's behaviour, Tom Sr. *had not* consented to love her.

And what exactly did you think that the Vance girl wanted to do with 
Harry if she knew it'd only last for 24 hours?  The least I can come 
up with is some rough snogging, x.x

Marcela