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[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 179673

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma"
<k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
>
> >> So, I'm just curious for the rest of you.  Were there any characters
> >> who truly annoyed you?  I don't mean disappointed you or angered you,
> >> really.  I mean ANNOYED you. :)
> >>
> >> Do tell, if you've got one!
> >>
> >
> > Pippin:
> > The Chest Monster from HBP. Although thinking about it as a character
> > rather than a metaphor actually helps, it still seems contrived.
It's the
> > only thing I don't like about H/G.
> 
> Shelley:
> 
> YES, YES that chest monster! I know she was trying to keep the book
PG and 
> all, but please. We all know that "something else" rises to the
occasion 
> when a boy really thinks about a girl. (I still remember telling a
guy that 
> I liked him and he immediately excused himself- he ran to the bathroom, 
> thinking that everyone could see "it". The guy later became my
husband, and 
> told me the real story, but at the time he thought he would die of 
> embarrassment.) I know a wet dream or two would have probably not
been out 
> of the ordinary, either. Maybe it was Rowling's way of trying to
"keep it 
> clean" while getting the point across that Harry was growing up?
>


***Katie: 

I could not agree more! I am sure she was trying to keep a PG rating
on that, but it was an awful phrase...somehow it seemed grosser than a
wet dream would have! I also really hated all the awkward desriptions
of Harry's dreams about Ginny...come on. When you're 16 or 17, you are
not dreaming about kissing and that's it! It would have been better to
just leave it out, IMO. 


Or maybe if she's not picked a specific phrase...if she'd just said
something like, "Harry's feelings for Ginny tightened his chest..." I
don't know! But I did cringe every time I read "chest monster". Ick. 


Katie