[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter, REALLY for Grown-Ups (well, PG-13 anyway)

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164400

--- "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.


===> Jeremiah: LOL. I would say so... Though, the Astronomy Tower would have
the best views I think it's a
pretty obvious choice" (a la Lockehart).

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.

===> Jeremiah: here here! I totally agre.. it's not porn and it's fiction
for kids. Plus, all these heterosexual couplings... ok, well, maybe it's
just me... but I do know that the chances of (pardon me for this graphic
phrase) circle-jerk in Harry's dormatory are high. And I'm not sure I'd want
to hear about that even in passing! And I'm a gay man!

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.

===> Jeremiah: Well, hang on there... I have had lots of tales of men's
boarding schools and Military Academys where the guys do lots of things
together. I'm sure it's the same for co-ed campuses. Then again, I'd think
that the emotional intensity of a sexual relationship would somehow cause
the extreme amount of magic in the air around Hogwarts to spontaneously
explode if everyone was off shagging. Yikes!

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.

===> Jeremiah: Can you imagine Snape giving teh "now that you've matured..."
speech? I'd never EVER want to touch anyone else, or myself for that
matter... He'd instill the fear of impending death in me... And then there's
McGonagall. LOL. Now, Professor Sprout would have the "You're a blossoming
flower" speech to all the Hufflepuff girls. And I'm not certain if Madame
Pomfrey would want to go around handing out Abortion Potion to anyone...
it's a bit of a touchy subject... maybe she gives instructions on spells
that give protection... just in case...
===> I still am curious which students would be gay and which professors,
too. I'll check past posts to see if it's been discussed... and in a
non-sexual/overtly sexual way. ('Cause i've read some gay HP fan fic... and
I'm kinda creeped out about it, honestly...) no offence to those who write
or enjoy it... Mut Harry and Malfoy? Yikes...


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