No: HPFGUIDX 173730 > > Erin: > > On another note: did anyone else read the Muggle torture of > > Ariana as rape? Or do I just like my backstories as twisted > > as possible? Alcuin: That's how I read it. I wonder if, just maybe, JKR had Ursula LeGuin's _Tehanu_ in mind when she was writing about Ariana.