We Can't Believe These Saucy Harry Potter Lines Made It Past the Censors
Seriously, were these teenage wizards always this naughty?
The Harry Potter books are something we all grew up with, and we love them for the way they instantly transport us to the magical world. However, you have to remember that we're talking about teenagers here, and it seems that J.K. Rowling wanted to make them as authentic as possible.
How else would you explain those three lines that sound as dirty as they do?
Unaspected Planet
In the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ron seems to show an interest in planets... or something else entirely.
"Seamus and Dean, who were working nearby, sniggered loudly, though not loudly enough to mask the excited squeals from Lavender Brown -
"Oh Professor, look! I think I've got an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?"
"It is Uranus, my dear," said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart.
"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron."
We wonder how Rowling was even allowed to keep this in the book...
Size Matters
We knew that Hermione Granger was a lot braver in the books, but this quote from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is just so unnecessarily dubious.
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
While we cannot lie, that sounds reassuring and not dirty enough for kids to get the hint. Besides, it's a clever one: after all, the entire conflict of the seventh book is about whose wand is better...
Faulty Quill
Thank God we didn't have too many "dirty" quotes in the first books, when the characters were just kids themselves. Most of the questionable lines are in the last books, but they seem to make up for it.
In Half-Blood Prince, Hermione discovers that Ron's homework was written with a faulty quill, which seems to have slightly spiced up the words he used:
"And 'augury' doesn't begin O— R— G either. What kind of quill are you using?"
Would anyone be surprised to learn that it was Fred and George's Spell-Check quills? Yes, we thought so.