10 Problems With Harry Potter Movies That Nobody Wants To Admit
5. Where's All The... Sex?
Theres a perfectly logical reason why theres no sex in Harry Potter: the original novels were written with children in mind, whilst the later instalments were intended for young adults. Rowling wasnt going to suddenly shift the tone of her books when her characters hit puberty, of course, and its one of those things that - as a reader - you just accept: Harry Potter is a totally sexless franchise. Consider the fact that Harry Potter is set in a boarding school made up of both boys and girls, though, all of whom are teenagers or on the cusp of being teenagers, and you begin to wonder where all these kids came from. They flirt and kiss occasionally, but nobody seems at all interested in sex. If Hogwarts existed in real life, the place would be something akin to a teenage sex palace - thousands of kids going through puberty, away from home, living in dorms. Put frankly, itd be disgusting. And yet the books - and thus the movies - pay little attention to this fact, skirting around issues like "sexual desire." Magic is cool, but for a fifteen-year-old Harry Potter, surely getting his end away would be the main priority?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
