[HPforGrownups] Teen Pregnancy

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 189237

>Nicole wrote:
>How do you think teen pregnancy is dealt with in the
>wizarding world?

No.Limberger responds:
This is a difficult question. Given that the series of books was intended
for children,
JKR probably had no intention of writing or suggesting sexual encounters
within them.

One thing that I believe we can safely assume is that, yes, wizards &
witches do
engage in sex since they have children. How often they engage would probably
be no
different from any other muggle couple.

As for the possibility of teen pregnancies, I'd have to say that the
possibility exists;
but as someone else pointed out, it may be something that is simply not
discussed.

Given the environment at Hogwarts, I don't think it would be necessarily
easy for
the students to attempt it there. Harry, Ron & Hermione, for example, never
ran
into any other students walking the halls at night, with the exception of
Malfoy
in the first book, but he was looking for them and wanted to get them into
trouble. (However, I believe that that was Harry, Ron & Neville.)  I doubt
that
girls would permit a boy to enter one of their dormitories and it's probably
unlikely
that the boys would do the same by letting a girl enter their dormitory
area. Yeah,
a perspective couple may be able to go off to some lesser-used part of the
castle,
but given the ghosts floating around, the paintings, Filch & his cat,
students,
professors, etc. who are there, I doubt that any potential couple would feel

sufficiently safe to do anything there. There's Hogsmead, but then you're
talking
about renting a room for a few hours since student outings there are never
overnight.  For holidays & summer breaks, students are likely going to be
with
families, though it's not clear who Riddle spent summers & holidays with
given
that he was an orphan.

Thus, from how JKR wrote the books, it would appear that the opportunity for

teens to get pregnant in the first place may be rather low.  If one did, it
would
probably be handled by one of many possible ways similar to how muggles
handle
teen pregnancies in the real world; and, those ways would depend on
family circumstances, the circumstances behind the pregnancy, etc.  I doubt
that there would be one, single way that all teen pregnancies would be
handled
given that there's no one single way that they're handled by muggles.

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