[HPFGU-OTChatter] Why Rowling should not have outed DD

[kemper mentor]

Tonks: 
Here are the reasons why even if Rowling thought of DD as gay, and
did not put that fact in the books, that she should have taken that
thought to her grave and never told the readers.

 1. It is not considered, even in this permissive day and age, as
a ‘norm’ of our (U.S) society. 
... And in many societies around the world
homosexuality is still a very taboo subject. 

2. Most people read the books primary to be entertained. Rowling
telling the world that there is a gay person in the books, after the
fact, changes the story and the nature of the books. 

 3. I always looked at the WW in the book as being about like the
1950. It was a conservative time before a 50% divorce rate, when
families were a mother, father and kids unless something tragic
happened to a parent as in Neville’s case. ... The WW had it
problems, some of which mirrored our own, but still in many ways it
was a place to go to escape from the RW. People do not want the
place that they go to for escape to suddenly have the same problems
and issues that the RW does.
 

Kemper now:
What are the additional spiritual enlightenments that you see HP gives to what
 you believe to be a conservative US population as well as to the societies of the world where
 homosexuality is taboo?

Can these spiritual lessons be learned within tenets of their religion?
  

I speculate that the divorce rate of the 1950's were lower than today,
 may be due in a large part to the oppression of women of the time.  A
 time when father may have abused mother while the kids watched/heard
 what was going on, but due to lack of support or resources mother stayed
 with father.

How come the RW issues of child neglect/abuse, death/grief, political
 corruption, etc. is an ok entertainment in a book meant to escape?

Kemper


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