Students and Sex at Hogwarts

Richard Jones jones.r.h.j at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 25 22:40:47 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 134884

One passage in the HBP that struck me as odd was in chapter 25 (pp. 535-
36 in the US ed.) when Ginny told the trio about Romilda's question 
about whether Harry had a tattoo on his chest.  None of the four seemed 
surprised even though to answer that question Ginny would have had to 
have seen Harry without a shirt on.  Granted, Ginny lied to Romilda but 
the question of whether she saw Harry without a shirt was still open.  
And if we add the discussion here from a few months ago about what the 
students wear under their robes — well, I think you see where I'm going 
with this.

So what do you think, folks?  Is JKR suggesting sex?  (JKR would be 
very delicate on the subject of sex.  Notice that we never even hear 
any of the students actually swear — JKR just says after the fact that 
so and so swore.)

Richard Jones








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