[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Janette]

>
> Del:
>  I'm sorry, but the way I see it, it's
> entirely her fault. If she wanted all her readers to be
> OK with a gay DD, then she should have WRITTEN a gay DD,
> so that all people reading the books would know that DD
> was gay.


montims:
but she DID write a gay DD - she told us so - she always imagined DD as gay,
and that governed his actions with GG.  Just because we don't see him
kissing anybody, it doesn't stop him being gay.  His orientation was only
revealed by implication in the last book.  We don't know that Sirius was not
gay, or Peter, or any of the other characters not specifically mentioned as
being in heterosexual relationships, but that's not important to the story
as we have it.  DD being revealed to be gay explains the DD/GG situation in
the books further, in the same way as other backstories explain other things
further.  How could James and Lily leave Harry so much money?  We learn that
through interviews - it is not in the books.  Details of other characters in
the tapestry are not in the books, but revealed outside of them.  And many
other examples that we all used to pore over.  DD is gay.  He does not have
sex with anyone in the books.  Where is the offence?  Why should people know
the sexual orientation of every character before reading a story?


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