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

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 164398

---  "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> Bart Lidofsky <bartl@> wrote:
> 
> > Hogwarts has students from 10-17. Doesn't ANYBODY
> > have sex?
> 
> Oh I rather think they do.  Consider that bit about 
> Harry's tattoo; didn't you every wonder why everybody
> at Hogwarts would take it as a given that Ginny would 
> know what Harry's naked chest looked like. And those 
> long "walks" with Ginny  where they were all alone and
> far from prying eyes seemed to make Harry VERY happy.
> 
> Eggplant
>


bboyminn:

First, Bart, what happens on-the-page and what happens 
off-the-page are entirely different things. If you want 
to find out what happens 'off-page' just read Fan Fiction
and you will discover that students are snogging and
shagging all over the place in every imaginable 
combination and with every imaginable predilection for
assorted fetishes. Though the Astronomy Tower seems to
be everyone's favorite, and Draco usually has a tendency
toward BDSM. 

As far as 'on-page' consider most TV sit-coms, they
usually include teenage kids, why don't they all play
out like a cheap porn movies? Now modern sit-coms are
more likely to tackle certain issues of a sexual nature
but they do so with an extremely delicate hand. There
are 'Standards and Practices' censors who keep tight
control on such matters.

You could further ask yourself why Nancy Drew never had
sex or why the Hardy Boys never had sex, and of course
the answer is because this is fun family entertainment
not porn.

Further consider that kids in the wizard world don't seem
to be as worldly or sexually sophisticated as their jaded
real world counter parts. Further-further, I suspect that
with the tightly controlled and heavily supervised 
environment of Boarding School there are very few 
opportunities for such activity; not none, but few. 

Thought, I think if Percy can sneak off and snog his 
girlfriend, (what was her name again?) then we can 
rightly assume that the potential exists for more than 
kissing. But the potential also exists for extreme 
consequences and public embarassment if they are caught. 

Note that when Harry and Ron go outside from the Yule 
Ball, there are plenty of kids outside engaged in 
intimate activity, and with teenagers, a bit of snogging
eventually leads to naked, hot, and sweaty. So, the 
implications are there, but again this is a family book
and details are completely inappropriate, but if you can
read between the lines, as most Fan Fiction authors do,
you will discover students shagging in every broom closet,
and unused classroom in the school.

Final note; I have always suspect, though of course it
occurs off-page, that at a certain age students are taken
aside and given 'the talk', at which time, amoung many
other things, magical birth control is taught. It seems 
reasonable that in a few millennium of magical history,
means of magical birth control would have been invented,
several means. So, this could account for the lack of any
embarassing 'accidents' amoung Hogwarts students. 

Pure speculation of course. 

Steve/bboyminn