naked Harry Potter in Hogwarts sex romp?

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MaryAnn Johanson

on February 2, 2007 9:41 PM | permalink | comments (6)

If people are so upset about this:

...how upset are they gonna be when Rowling lets Harry have sex before she kills him off in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Not that I have any inside information or anything, but it would only be fair, wouldn’t it?

Meanwhile, the British paper The Herald has a piece in its February 3rd issue about the whole Harry phenomenon. There’s nothing really new in it, but I was struck for the first time by the generational issues at work in the success of Rowling’s books: she came along at just the right time, when people started caring about, you know, kids again:

Ten years ago, children's fiction was a stagnant backwater which nobody really took very seriously at all. In the last 10 years there's been a revolution which is mostly due to Harry Potter.

That’s a quote from another children’s author. The article also features this:

Dr Karen McGavock, a researcher at Dundee University whose PhD thesis examined Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, believes the books are valuable for more than saving the "Nintendo generation" from a childhood of stupefied computer game addiction.

Translation: “It’s only a bonus that we’ve saved ourselves from another generation like those slacker Xers.”

Anyway, I’ve preordered my copy of The Deathly Hallows, and now have definite and unbreakable plans for the weekend of July 21. How ’bout you?

(Technorati tags: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Daniel Radcliffe)

6 Comments

by Count Shrimpula on February 3, 2007 10:44 AM

My girlfriend has preordered her copy. Actually, she did so before the publication date was even announced. Last book, I just waited for her to finish reading and then borrowed it when she was done, but that was agonizing. I don't know if I can wait again, I might have to order my own as well this time. Curse you, J.K. Rowling and your damnable addicting series!

by Isobel on February 3, 2007 8:11 PM

You're assuming that just because Rowling didn't mention it, Harry hasn't had sex. You think with an invisibility cloak and a Room of Requirement on hand and that "Death Eaters might kill us both tomorrow" thing going on he and Ginny held back? I doubt it.

by bats on February 3, 2007 10:19 PM

I think the next movie comes out just a week before the last book. Looks like July is going to be a national month of celebration, or something, for Potter fans. Also a nice article on "Equus" and an interview with Daniel Radcliffe in the "This is London" website: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23384050-details/From+Harry+to+hunk/article.do

by Anonymous on February 4, 2007 4:00 PM

The only reason I haven't pre-ordered the book yet is because I'm not too sure how I'm going to get it. Should I pre-order through Borders and enjoy the procession of (mostly) child fans at the bookstore in the hours leading up to midnight like I did for OotP? Or do I order it through Amazon and go down to Oak Park (Illinois) and enjoy the show of thousands of fans gathered together to celebrate the books at the town's re-creation of Diagon Alley in its downtown shopping district, with "Quidditch" and Human Chess played in the park across the street, along with High Tea (accompanied by tea-leaf reading) and other wizarding tie-ins. I did this last time, and it was a blast to watch!

by Orodemniades on February 4, 2007 7:27 PM

I hate Harry Potter with the heat of a thousand burning suns. It's tremendously bad writing - and don't give me that malarky about it 'improving' as the series goes on. The only reason I didn't hurl the first book across the room was because it wasn't mine, and even then I only made it through the first chapter. The one and only reason I appreciate HP is because it's gotten people reading books again, and that's no bad thing. So, yeah, that would be a 'no' in the pre-ordering for me.

by MaryAnn on February 5, 2007 12:54 AM

You're assuming that just because Rowling didn't mention it, Harry hasn't had sex.

Well, the really key point is about nitwits getting upset over the idea of Harry having sex, which they will surely do if Rowling explicitly deals with this in the last book. What fans put their dirty minds to regarding issues that Rowling has not been explicit about is another matter... :->

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