One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Tonks]

Dell said:
Personally, I would probably be upset for the same reason I've 
already mentioned: because it doesn't square with the WW as she 
created it all through the first 6 books.

Tonks:
I agree. The problem for me is that before OP there was a lot of 
talk among fans that Remus and Sirius were gay lovers. And even in 
the film, the ‘you two are acting like an old married couple’ thing 
came up. I, and I suspect a lot of others, thought that when she 
paired Remus with Tonks that she was doing that to prevent people 
from reading any gay characters into the books. It would have been 
plausible for her to have made Remus and Sirius gay, I would not 
have had any problem with that personally. But she didn’t. And why? 
Well it seemed to me that she was saying in effect that she was not 
writing a modern story, but one with the social world of the past, 
say anything before the 1960’s. Maybe even the 1700-1800’s, given 
the way most of them dressed.  Now suddenly she has changed the 
world in which HP is set. It just doesn’t fit with what she has 
written in the books, all other factors aside. 

lizzyben said:

Because she does believe that a great or brilliant person could be
gay. How is that a moral attack on anyone? 

Katie said:

 I will never understand how someone else's sexuality, skin color, 
ethnicity, religion...etc. can be morally offensive to another 
person, or threatening to their rights and way of life. 
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What I *would* like is if those people would have a genuine change 
of heart and realize that gay people, or black people, or Muslim 
people, or whoever it is that they don't like, isn't a threat to 
them or their way of life.

Tonks:

I suggest that you go to Yahoo Answers on any given night between 
2am and 6am EST and read the post in Society and Culture under the 
subheading 'Religion and Spirituality'. You will get quite an eye 
opener and different view of things. There are many groups that are 
a "threat to our rights and way of life”. I no long post there 
because I was sent a very threating vidio. Ask me about the tolerant 
feelings that I have for that group of people now!!

This is the major point of my being against DD being gay. There are 
parts of the world where nothing else from outside can get it, but 
the HP books have. These are parts of the world who are anti-gay, 
anti-women's right, even anti-left-handed (which I am). Could they 
use a lesson on tolerance? Very much so. Are they going to listen to 
a teacher that is gay? No. And this is the problem.  This is why I 
am opposed to DD being gay. DD is the wise teacher, like a wise holy 
man. He is not a wise holy woman. Some people would not listen to a 
woman. And some people, the very people who need the teaching the 
most, will not listen to him because he is gay. Now from our liberal 
Western POV we can say "oh well, it is their lost". Problem is it is 
not just THEIR lost, it effects all of us.My objection to Rowlings 
statement as I have repeatedly said is because it was Stupid of her. 
She knew the reaction that would come, and she was not thinking 
about the political ramifications WORLD WIDE. She shot herself in 
the foot. If she hoped that her books would teach tolerance, she 
messed up. Because you can not teach anything to people who will not 
listen to you. She is a teacher, she should have known better.

Tonks_op