One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[delwynmarch]

Katie wrote:

Katie wrote:
> I don't understand why JKR would "know" that 
> there is a whole group of people that wouldn't 
> buy the books if there was a gay main character? 

Del replies:
Remember how so many people have been against the 
HP books because they are "about witchcraft"? 
Remember how quite a few efforts have been made 
to ban those books because of that?

Do you really think that homosexuality is less 
controversial than witchcraft?

> Secondly, I don't know why anyone would think 
> she was "pandering" to a particular group of 
> anyone. As some others have mentioned, was she 
> pandering to the H/R shippers when she got them 
> together? No, she was just writing the books the 
> way she wanted to, and some people happened to 
> agree with her choices and be happy about it.

Well then, apparently, the way she wanted her 
books to be was WITHOUT homosexuality. If that's 
what she wanted back when she actually WROTE
them, then why change her mind so soon after she 
finished writing them?

> If I can ignore actual canon in order to enjoy 
> the book, I don't understand why other people 
> can't just ignore her one-off comment about DD 
> and keep on reading? 

Because not everyone is like you? Because for 
some people the "damage" has already been done?  
Because little Johnny heard about DD being gay in 
school or something and now Mom and Dad have to 
deal with it? Or inversely because Ma and Pop 
were not hot with HP to begin with, and now that 
they've heard on TV that DD is gay, they've 
demanded that Mary get rid of her HP books?  
I can imagine hundreds of reason why her highly 
mediatised comment could not be ignored by quite 
a few people.

Del