[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: gay characters, casting Bill

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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Angela Boyko wrote:

> >I'm afraid you're right.  JKR could just drop a gay character in
> >casually, but there would probably be a firestorm in the media.
> >Children are apparently expected to grow up thinking GLBT folks don't
> >exist.

Well it's true, we don't exist, we are but a figment in the imagination of some 
odd person who is obviously misguided!

Jen, I like your analogy of GLBT communities and the wizarding communities. 
Hmm, who knows, maybe she's a closet dyke - err, too much to hope for I think. 
I don't know that it was intentional or not. It's not really a model that is 
useful for considering communities based on ethnicity, class etc so maybe it 
was. I hope so.

Personally, I'd really like to see Sirius and Remus, having worked
through their trust issues, settle down together.

When is grimslasher gonna write some more about these two?

(Well, I'd most like to see Prof. McGonagall with a woman, but you
know...)

Me! Me! All right she's old for a muggle but ...

> And I think Seth Green from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would make a
> wonderfully cool Bill.

Seth Green *is* incredibly cool.

I third this. <g>

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