Should JKR shut up?

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 178331

> Shelley wrote:
> > Some have also asked that same question in a different form: What 
> was she 
> > supposed to do, lie about it? Um, not saying anything for the sake 
> of 
> > prudence or protecting the innocence of the children you are 
> talking to 
> > isn't the same as lying. She could have answered without lying or 
> saying 
> > it's a secret.

va32h:

If we are really determined to protect the "innocence of children"
they probably shouldn't be reading HP at all.  It's full of murder,
torture, frightening imagery and all manner of violence.  I found the
graveyard scene in GoF and the cave scene in HBP quite frightening as
an adult - I'm sure those scenes gave plenty of children nightmares. 

But that's our sensibility isn't it - any amount of violence is
acceptable, any drop of sexuality offensive.  Some movie director said
once - you can show a breast being sliced off and get an "R" rating,
but if you show a breast being caressed it's an "X". 

Or as Daniel Radcliffe said of his performance in Equus - parents
hesitated to bring their children to the play because he is naked in
one brief scene, but they had no problem with the fact that his
character brutally mutilates six horses!

We really need to rethink our priorities. 

va32h