Shipping: Harry's experience. Wuv.

[cassandraclaire73]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Aberforth's Goat" <mike at a...> 
wrote:

> When *I* was 15, my enitre hands-on experience with sexuality was 
confined to an exhaustive perusal of the Song of Soloman, DH 
Lawrence, my father's family counseling manuals, and the lingerie 
section of my mother's mail order catalogues. I dreamed of kissing a 
real, live girl in more or less the
> same hopeless way Voldemort dreams of conquering the galaxy.
> 
> To me, Harry's experience level seems a just about right - I mean, 
I never got to snog any of my wouldbe Chos, but then again, I wasn't 
a dashing  quidditch player who won Cups and saved the world every 
year either. > _______________________
> 
*dies of the cute, builds time machine to go back and snog fifteen 
year old Mike. Bad Place!*

Ahem. 

I feel Harry's experience level is just about right for his age, as 
well. Harry is *shy*, too, and up until this point had never kissed a 
girl. His terrible first kiss, his awful date - I loved them, they 
seemed real, and kept me smiling through this very dark book.

I have to wonder, after the swimming pool of ellipses that was the 
Harry/Cho kiss, if JKR actually...maybe...hates writing romance? Just 
a thought. She's so determinedly unsentimental and she skirts the 
issue so widely, save when it crops up to humorous effect, I wonder 
if perhaps she just isn't one of those writers who likes romance and 
therefore we will never get any Twu Wuv in canon? Which would be just 
fine with me.

Casslet