# How is J.K. Rowling handling Harry Potter's developing sexuality? (OPEN SPOILERS)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 6, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063 "2005-10-06T16:12:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063/21 "2005-10-06T20:49:56Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> Gee, no offense, but maybe Harry has a bit more depth to him than that? Maybe he actually cares about Ginny? Maybe he wants to have Feelings for a girl and not just hygienic release of bodily substances? What the hell would a 17 y/o do with a “harem”? Stutter and blush, most likely.  
> Just a thought.
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> Frankly, I find Ron and Hermione’s relationship alot more interesting.
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> Rowling sees these characters as real–and she knows teens very well, IMO.

Are you being serious? Or am I being whooshed? Or did I whoosh someone? Of course I don’t expect Harry to want a harem full of girls. I was making a joke about the Room of Requirement. Wow.

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063/22 "2005-10-06T21:53:36Z")

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Sounds to me like the guy was just saying that Harry Potter isn’t the only book in its genre.

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063/23 "2005-10-06T22:11:01Z")

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Personally, I always kind of imagine it going something like [this](http://www.liquidgeneration.com/blog/video/snl_potter.mov). 😉

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**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063/24 "2005-10-06T23:58:34Z")

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> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> \*\*Mastabatum \*\*!

…or…

**Mastabatus Freehandus**  
Can’t leave out Ginny…  
**Phallus Nohandus**

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-j-k-rowling-handling-harry-potters-developing-sexuality-open-spoilers/325063/25 "2005-10-07T10:11:46Z")

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> [@Rysto](#):
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> Sounds to me like the guy was just saying that Harry Potter isn’t the only book in its genre.

That’s about right. I got the impression he was trying to “Talk street”, as it were, but it fell flat.

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