SHIP: Pirate Ginny

[JodyE50 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 133612

mg_mchenry at hotmail.com writes:

> Comparatively speaking, this book was light on (frequent) immediate
> physical danger and school stress, so it gave more time to the ships.
> The books were too busy before to detail the snogging going on in the
> common room, but the audience was younger then.  Imagine a
> mixed-gender bunch of 16 year olds with practically no supervision and
> common living quarters.  What do you think will happen?
> 
> I can only imagine that witches solved the contraception problem ages
> ago, so what we see in print in the book is pretty tame.
> 

Actually I find the young witches and wizards in the HP books to be rather 
innocent, compared to today's teenagers. If you think about it, they have no 
exposure to television or the Internet. They have "pop" music and radios but not 
much else that modern teens have. In many ways they remind me of the Amish, 
holding on to a simpler and more innocent lifestyle, in the face of the outside 
(Muggle) world. 

We really don't know the Wizarding world's views on teen sex or sexuality in 
general. Presumably each family handles sex education the same way they handle 
regular education, pre-eleven years old.  It certainly doesn't seem to be a 
subject taught at Hogwarts. The only hint of actual supervision we have seen in 
the living quarters are the sliding staircase leading to the girl's dorms. 
Maybe the students are being fed saltpeter in their treacle tarts, or there are 
some other anti-sex spells in place that we haven't found out about yet, since 
the snogging has been quite innocent so far. 

I think that JKR has chosen to keep her books rated PG deliberately. I notice 
that when Voldemort's mother ran off with Tom Riddle, they were secretly 
married...Voldy wasn't illegitimate. A mature relationship was hinted at between 
Hagrid and Madame Maxine when they went giant hunting, but that was something 
that only adults would pick up on, I think.  

I can only imagine what will happen in book 7, when everybody (except Ginny) 
is of age and a state of war exists. Mrs. Weasley worries that impulsive 
marriages tend to take place in such times, much like in the human world. It should 
be very interesting, indeed.

Jody