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Harry Potter Erotica

Harry Potter pervades pretty much every corner of popular culture today, including our sex lives, apparently.

Fanfiction writing, or continuing and altering a movie/book/TV show, is incredibly prevalent. Harry Potter is one of the biggest categories, and romance features are a large fraction of that. There is even Harry Potter erotica, which is purely porn without a plot.

Nothing is off-limits: bestiality, incest or plain vanilla sex. Don’t get me wrong; there are plenty of good stories that riff off of Rowling’s characters that don’t focus on sex. However, such a large portion does.

Why are people so drawn to reading and writing erotica based off this best-selling book series? Perhaps it’s simply society wanting to keep the wizarding world alive. Most of us read the Harry Potter series as kids and as we mature, naturally, our tastes do as well. Is Harry Potter erotica the next logical step?

That’d be a leap, personally. I think it’s more likely a combination of a lack of money and wish fulfillment.

Unless you’ve been hiding under a large stack of Tolkien novels, you’ve discovered books are EXPENSIVE. College students have no money, especially not for smut. So, what’s a person to do? Here enters HP erotica to save the day.

Fanfiction is a free way to read interesting stories. It involves dredging through the 90 percent subpar trash, but at least it’s better than spending tons of money on something you’ll never read again.

Beyond freeing up funds, people might enjoy HP erotica because of some minor wish-fulfillment in the “ships” department.

Did anyone honestly predict Harry and Ginny getting together? Or Ron and Hermione? If so, great for you, but many people (including myself) hate them as couples. Now, thanks to HP erotica, you can see your favorite, sadly not destined to be, couple get it on. Joining them in making like felix felicis and getting lucky, handling the brooms, slythering in their chambers of secrets.

Some people are going to turn up their noses at this. They think they’re too good for it, or that it’s only something to be read while hiding under your bed during the full lunar eclipse.

People need to get over their squeamishness. There’s no shame in it. Everyone reads smut. Yes, chances are the person sitting right next to you at this very moment has at some point in time read Harry Potter erotica.

It could be worse. So much worse. They could be reading “50 Shades of Grey.”

So, go forth and read whatever you want, even if it includes the Golden Trio in various compromising positions. I’m not going to stop you. Just remember: Be safe, y’all, and as the Fred and George would say … I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

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