One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[delwynmarch]

montims wrote:
> see, with regard to # 2 - that is where I cannot
> follow you.  I cannot conceive of any society 
> being "strictly heterosexual" in any place or time.

Del replies:
This implies that you think of the WW as being a "real"
society. But it's not. It's a purely fictional society. 
There are NO HP-style of wizards in Real Life. So 
automatically applying the standards of RL on to the WW 
is a risky business, since the WW is entirely based on 
one such standard being broken to begin with.

So what matters more than what we can conceive of, is 
what is in the books themselves. For example, I 
personally cannot conceive of a perfectly racism-free 
society, and yet that's how JKR has written the WW
society. Another example is that you cannot conceive 
of a strictly heterosexual society, and yet *that's 
how JKR has written the WW society*. 

Wizards are not racist, and wizards are not gay. It 
might not be in accordance with the standards of Real 
Life, but it's how JKR has written the WW society, 
throughout her 7 books.

Del