Rowling Is No Good at Sex, Alyssa Rosenberg writes for The Atlantic.In the segment, both Harry and Hermione's burnished physicality exudes an otherworldly and even slightly diabolical togetherness.' 'The two characters' skins radiate a slick, silvery glow, akin to the bronzed look on a model on the cover of a fashion magazine. And his friends look 'as though they're beyond the affectionate snogging stage,' Carr says. Ron, who has long burned with jealousy of his best friend Harry-who is rich and famous and The Boy Who Lived-experiences a nightmare vision in which Harry and Hermione, on whom he has long crushed, are embracing, Coeli Carr reports for ABC News.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which opened Friday, features a nude scene between Hermione and Harry. Frustrated fans have had to make due with fan fiction, where they could imagine all the romantic couplings left off J.K. The Harry Potter books-and the movies, for the most part-have been extremely chaste. Millions of Harry Potter fans have grown up along with the books' characters, but as these kids matured and went through puberty and started sneaking kisses at teenage parties, Harry, Hermione, and Ron did not. This article is from the archive of our partner.