A Little Something about The Wedding

[sylviampj]

No: HPFGUIDX 173999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" 
<moosiemlo at ...> wrote:
>
> kiely78:
> 
> So umm what were they smoking in that pipe. Am I reading too much
> into this book now? Or is this just slightly inappropriate for a
> Young Adult book? I know, I know these is a debate about all of
> Potterverse not being Children's lit or Young Adult lit but outside
> of that, was this reference misplaced?
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> This is one of the reasons I love JKR.  They were smoking whatever 
you want
> them to have been smoking. Use your imagination!
> 
> Lynda
> 

I believe that JKR respects the boundaries of young adult fiction 
and to me her books seem to be innuendo-free. Of course you can read 
what you like into them, whether it's the size of wands or the 
tobacco they smoke, but I have a huge respect for JKR that she 
doesn't descend into a kind of pantomime innuendo - ha, ha let's 
have a dirty laugh over the children's heads. After all a large part 
of her audience are savvy young teens _ I've read some very 
impressive and perceptive on-line reviews of DH from 12 and 13 year 
olds. In OOTP Mundungus Fletcher smokes a very smelly pipe which 
emits green smoke in the kitchen of 12 Grimmauld place. Molly 
Weasley tells him off for smoking in the kitchen but there is no 
suggestion that he is smoking anything illicit. I just think that 
because we are in the wizard world everything is more colourful and 
interesting, even tobacco smoke. 

Sylvia.