That'd be a hilarious twist to a founder fic though, Gryffindor as not opposed to corporal punishment.

 

I haven't read enough (if any) "founder fics" to know what kind of conventions there are, but I can honestly not see Gryffindor as someone strongly opposed to corporal punishment.

 

Corporal punishment was abolished in Hogwarts either by Dumbledore or shortly before him, AFAIK.

 

I could definitely see Gryffindor laying teh smackdown (literally) as Hogwarts' resident disciplinarian. Him or Hufflepuff, actually.

That being said, the vast majority of fics that do the whole regular spanking thing seem to be set in the present day, decades after Dumbledore abolished it, as golan said. I think it's usually just some "concerned parent" who secretly gets off on it.

 

I'm concerned about such "concerned parents".

 

I really hate these type of stories. I once read a perfectly good 'Sirius adopts Harry' story but there was this scene where he asks him to remove his trousers, spanks him with a wooden scale for some minor mistake, proceeds to 'comfort' him by making him sit on his lap and rub his butt. And Harry is FUCKING 13 at the time!!!!

I felt so bloody weird after reading that shit...

I mean, spanking isn't the only corporal punishment, is it?

Thank God, my parents were never like that...shew.

 

Hell, that sound like slash in a paperthin disguise.

 

I don't seem to remember my parents wanting to comfort me after a spanking. Usually because I did something to really piss them off before they did it. When I read a fic with corporal punishment it makes me think the author has no idea what it's for. It's to get a kids attention when nothing else works. I also don't like the idea of someone other then a parent/guardian doing it. If a kid pisses you off that much you separate them and contact the parent.

 

Really? Did they get your attention, your parents?

To me, I think its a way to piss off the kid more than he pissed of the parents. Better buy him(or her) an ice cream or a chocolate and THEN, explain them lovingly what the problem was and the reason behind it. Most children don't listen because they feel what they are doing is right/logical and they don't know the consequences behind their actions.

 

Well I certainly realized that that things weren't going to go my way, and I had to grudgingly accept my place as the kid. In fanfics though it always comes across to me that there was never really any need for a spanking in the first place and I shudder at the fact that some of the authors mistake corporal punishment for a D/s relationship between two adults.

 

Right.

Means it works sometimes.

Though it would have been better if it wasn't 'grudgingly'. It would certainly have lasted more.

 

That's against pavlonian reasoning tough.

Kid did something wrong -> Buy him an icecream (and talk to him)

But I'm more used to animal training then kid raising, so it might still work.

 

It's the same thing though. Albeit a human child can understand a lot better than a dog. The ice cream is a reward for bad behavior. When disciplining anything you want to make sure that the reward is for doing what you want.

 

Oh, come on.

We don't train children(except potty training), we raise them and try to impart good values to them. There's a difference.

 

Meh, this whole "children" thing seems overrated. Really just seems to be pointless. I probably sound like some heartless reptilian saying that, though.

Anyway, bringing this thread back on topic, I'm beginning to develop a burning hatred for unrealistically undeveloped children. Nothing pisses me off more than an authors note saying something along the lines of:

"No pairings-they're only eleven, people!"

I suppose this in itself isn't terrible- But oftentimes these fics have Harry or some other eleven/twelve year old be absolutely clueless about anything sex related. It gets worse when these fics are set in COS, or even POA.

People, twelve- and even many eleven- year olds are far mire advanced in their knowledge pertaining to the opposite sex than you seem to think. I dunno if I was unusually advanced when I was eleven, or if people are just ignorant about people in that age group, but it just... Rubs me the wrong way.

Also, for the record, I'm not gonna get in any fifty page arguments over this, like I've seen happen so many times on these threads.

 

I knew what it was and was watching porn when I was 10. Think I was weird though.

 

Wait. What? Porn at the age of 10? Can you even get hard at 10? Like, starting young is something, but 10? What the flying fuck did you do? Wonder if your inch long floppy would ever grow up into a thumb drive?

 

Depends on the company you keep.

Harry had no company at all except the Dursleys for his first eleven years. He is innocent. Hermione, on the other hand, might have read everything about it but the authors are often confused about the rating system. You see, if she knows about it, she would blather about it whether someone likes it or not. She would probably go into such details that the author would have to up the rating just because of her dialogues. So, they decide to leave her as innocent as Harry instead.

Ron, as he is, definitely knows about everything since he practically lives in the Weasley Breeding Grounds. There is no way Fred and George have left him alone for all those years. Plus, Molly just has to tutor Ginny from the start. Thus, Ron just decides to keep his mouth shut or just eat when it isn't.

Neville is a wild card depending on Augusta's coaching.

 

Function was incomplete.

 

What?

/too short