It's been a week since anybody posted anything HP related! I've been getting my fix over on the HP Lexicon. But there's one discussion the Lex Mods put the kibosh on and that was the adult nature of some of the scenes in Deathly Hallows.
I wonder about the nature of the attack on Dumbledore's sister. I wonder if she was raped? I searched a bit and found others here wondered that, as well. However, JKR specifically said the boys who attacked Kendra were 'young'. This makes me think they didn't rape her. None the less, it did occur to me, and the fact that it occurred to others, here and on the Lexicon forum, makes me wonder if JKR worded it that way on purpose.
And I wonder about how Fenrir Greyback responded to Hermione Granger, and how he went galloping towards incapacitated Lavender Brown. It made my skin crawl the way he talked about Hermione.
And to a lesser extent I wonder about how quickly Tonks got pregnant after she and Lupin got married. Though here, I may simply not have a clear idea how much time went by!
This kind of fits with my impression that there are volumes and volumes of stories only hinted at throughout Deathly Hallows. While Harry was grieving for Dumbledore at the Dursleys, Remus and Nymphadora took a 'life affirming' step to heal their grief and finally got together. Remus, being the virile wolf that he is, Tonks being the lively nymph that she is, they quickly got pregnant.
All of this is open to interpretation. Either it occurs to you to think of these things or it doesn't. It cannot be proven. If asked about it, I think JKR would deny that she was implying any such adult motif in Deathly Hallows. But how clever, if she really did write those scenes with those thoughts in mind. It's got a built in censorship mechanism. Either you're old enough to know about these issues and are therefore aware enough to pick up those themes if they're there, and are therefore mature enough to handle them, or you aren't mature enough and therefore you don't notice it.
What do you think?
I wonder about the nature of the attack on Dumbledore's sister. I wonder if she was raped? I searched a bit and found others here wondered that, as well. However, JKR specifically said the boys who attacked Kendra were 'young'. This makes me think they didn't rape her. None the less, it did occur to me, and the fact that it occurred to others, here and on the Lexicon forum, makes me wonder if JKR worded it that way on purpose.
And I wonder about how Fenrir Greyback responded to Hermione Granger, and how he went galloping towards incapacitated Lavender Brown. It made my skin crawl the way he talked about Hermione.
And to a lesser extent I wonder about how quickly Tonks got pregnant after she and Lupin got married. Though here, I may simply not have a clear idea how much time went by!
This kind of fits with my impression that there are volumes and volumes of stories only hinted at throughout Deathly Hallows. While Harry was grieving for Dumbledore at the Dursleys, Remus and Nymphadora took a 'life affirming' step to heal their grief and finally got together. Remus, being the virile wolf that he is, Tonks being the lively nymph that she is, they quickly got pregnant.
All of this is open to interpretation. Either it occurs to you to think of these things or it doesn't. It cannot be proven. If asked about it, I think JKR would deny that she was implying any such adult motif in Deathly Hallows. But how clever, if she really did write those scenes with those thoughts in mind. It's got a built in censorship mechanism. Either you're old enough to know about these issues and are therefore aware enough to pick up those themes if they're there, and are therefore mature enough to handle them, or you aren't mature enough and therefore you don't notice it.
What do you think?
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