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Subject matter alone can't determine content in literature. There are people who condemn Lolita as being food for pedophiles, and passages from Andrew Vachs, whose novels are supposed to champion the fight against child trafficking, are said to be savored by the very people Vachs dedicated his career to hunting down.
And then there's the work of William Burroughs and Dennis Cooper.
I-know-it-when-I-see-it is often an excuse for myopia and literal-mindedness.
There are enough real cases of pedophilia to prosecute. Let's not muddy the issue by worrying about the fates of fictional characters.
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