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

[ibchawz]

No: HPFGUIDX 164353

Bart wrote:
Hogwarts has students from 10-17. Doesn't ANYBODY have sex? Now, I 
am not one of those people who say that ALL teenagers have sex, but 
certainly, SOME do. 

ibchawz responds:
Would this really add anything to the story from a literary 
perspective?  I don't really care to read the intimate details of 
the sex lives of all the characters.  If this was included in the 
books, I probably would have stopped reading the series after the 
first book.  The Harry Potter series has encouraged more kids to 
read.  If detailed sexual encounters were included in the books, I 
certainly would not let my kids read them.  This is precisely the 
reason that I watch very little TV anymore.

If this information would have been included in OotP, the book would 
have been over 1000 pages and weighed more than Dudley Dursley.  I 
have seen complaints that some of the books are too long and contain 
too much "fluff" as it is.  I don't think that we need an extra 200 
pages of sexual adventures to add to the story.  In fact, I think it 
would do more harm than good.

ibchawz - who realizes that this post does not include much canon, 
so I may need to go put my head in a cannon as punishment.