Harry Potter, REALLY for Grown-Ups (well, PG-13 anyway)

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 1 11:16:37 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 164436

Bart:
> Hogwarts has students from 10-17. Doesn't ANYBODY have sex?

*(snip)*

> Don't tell me that Draco has become  a gentleman!

Ceridwen:
I think the students do have sex, or at least try to find someplace 
where they can.  That's why Filch and Snape, and possibly others, 
patrol the corridors at night.  Not to catch Harry Potter trying to 
break into the library!

Then, there's Snape blasting bushes and calling out couples at the 
Yule Ball...

(There was a cute deleted scene in TMTMNBN#4 that addressed this.  
Loved it, don't know why the extended version didn't incorporate 
deleted scenes like LOTR did.  *grouse*)

...I doubt they were studying for exams in the bushes.

We don't see it normally because Harry doesn't notice, or he doesn't 
care.  He might even feel slightly uncomfortable about it.  It's 
possible JKR just doesn't show his thoughts on it, if he even has 
any, because she can't show what he thinks about everything, and tje 
sex lives of Hogwarts students won't move the plot along.  The books 
would be full sets of encyclopedias if she did.

For Draco, hm.  Good point about Rosmerta making the men a bit 
antsy.  But, he's got a mission this year, his mind is focused on 
this mission even before school starts.  He's elated at first: he's 
being seen as a Real Adult.  By spring, he's falling apart.  I don't 
think his mind was anywhere near Rosmerta beyond her usefulness.

Also, Draco didn't go to Hogsmeade Weekend before Christmas.  He was 
in detention.  I think someone else Imperio'd Rosmerta on Draco's 
behalf, that infamous 'better help than Crabbe and Goyle' mentioned 
to Snape at Christmas.  Draco's keeping his distance from the 
mechanics of the mission.  He isn't even present when the first 
attempt is set in motion.  He may never have seen Rosmerta under 
Imperius.  His job is to keep a low profile and complete the mission.

Ceridwen, who is glad to see a cute question like this.  :D





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