NOW: sexualized violence WAS Re: Which characters knew DD was Gay?

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 179295

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" <Schlobin at ...>
wrote:
>
> No...I'm confused how you would have interpreted that from my 
> comments....I was saying that even WORSE than a date rape drug would 
> be a "drug" or magic spell that would make someone think they were 
> in love with someone else...coercing not just the body, but the 
> mind, spirit, and imagination.....
> 
> Therefore, what Merope did was absolutely, totally, morally wrong...
> 
> As JKR said, Voldemort was conceived by force......

Mus responds:

But canon is a mite confused on the issue of love potions.  Molly
quite happily relates how she made one when young to Hermione and
Ginny (and they all "giggle") [PoA, UKpb: 56], and the twins, the
scamps, sell them to the discerning desperate in their shop *and*
smuggle them into Hogwarts disguised as more innocuous things [HBP,
UKhb: 287].  Of course, they're all Gryffindors, so they're not to be
tarred with the same brush as Merope.