[the_old_crowd] Re: More random jottings - on a theme

[Mike & Susan Gray]

Kneasy wrote,

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Kissing - yes, it's there. Harry has kissed two girls, so has Ron; Hermione 
probably two fellows - mighty short rations. I'd complain if I were they;
seventeen and only two kissing datees? T'aint natural, I tellee.
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Kneasy, you evil, evil man! You just ruined my whole self-image. I was 19
before I even got a decent snog. (Err - yes. And I'm afraid it was only one
girl, too.) (Where was TOC when I needed it?!) 

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Hormones - ah well. You should read what my physiology manuals have
to say about teens and hormones. It'd fair make your hair curl, and would
not go down well amidst the pages of HP. But I never suggested it should.
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Hear, hear! I'm still mildly surprised that I lived to celebrate my 15th
birthday. Whatever action I didn't get wasn't for lack of practice. 

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Despite all the brou-haha since, my point was that a little more realism,
congruence with contempory norms - especially the same-sex discussions
regarding uncertainty, ignorance and guesswork epidemic among the
younger set as they grope(!) towards adulthood, would not be amiss. 
We had it once. In seven years. In seven books.
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Goat the I am, I honestly don't see the need for more heterosexual activity.
I suppose the road trip would have afforded chances for extra snoggery, but
then, that's the problem with texts: they are lazy machines. Make you do
half the imagining yourself, the stupid things.

I do think it's more meaningful to ask about homosexual relationships,
divorce and - in particular - single parenting. Ms. Rowling could definitely
say a thing or two about the latter two topics, and she doesn't strike me as
the sort who would turn green about the first. But ... there you have it.
She decided to write about friendship and take the vanilla options on love.

* * * * *

(Of course, if only JK had been acquainted my own writing, she would have
had the key for a truly profound conclucion to her story, plumbing the
literary depths of high tragedy and drunken kink. For the record, my own
contribution to the Potterverse, The Viagramus Curse:

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/aberforths_goat/TVC.html 

Ah, the sins of my youth ... )

Bwahahahahaa!

Mike Gray (a.k.a. Aberforth's Goat, who's off to Interlaken himself tomorrow
and is now *really* planning on being to exhausted to get online much.) 
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bravery...." JK Rowling, The Goblet of Fire.

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