I Think I May Have Upset People Again...

Once again, a potential sex reference in Potter turns into "OMG WTF That's like so bad for teh kiddies". But we're still okay with cutting people open, right?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by amilas [/i]
[B]I definately thought Ginny and Harry were going to get it on. I was wondering how on earth Jo could include this though, since she has such a HUGE fanbase which includes children.[/B][/QUOTE]

What's that got to do with it?

She's got a story that includes murder, suicide, mutilation, torture, kidnapping, child abuse, mind rape, executions, self-mutilation, drawing, and all sorts of violence, but the slightest hint of sex and people start screaming "Think of the kiddies!"

Now, I don't think graphic sex scenes have any place in the HP books, nor do I particularly like them in other books. But certainly an allusion to it would have been appropriate at that juncture. So I'm going to echo my remarks in the "Almost Grown-Up Scenes" thread: Sex is healthier than violence. Sex creates life, violence ends life. I know which I'd rather have my hypothetical kids read about.

So Rowling's fine with writing seven books filled with violence and cruelty, but she chickens out of letting two people - in what, after all, is established to be a thoroughly committed long-term relationship - have sex before they go off to, potentially, their deaths. That, to me, smacks of misguided prudery.

Sex good. Violence bad. Easy.

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