One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
> <delwynmarch@> wrote:

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> > Del: 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?
> 
> 
> ***Katie: I just don't think that she was deliberately creating 
> books that excluded homosexuality. That thought never crossed my 
> mind, even being a gay rights activist. There are plenty of books 
> and films that do not specifically address homosexuality, but I do 
> not think of these books as *excluding* homosexuality, either. Just 
> because it wasn't relevant to the plot doesn't mean it was 
> deliberately excluded or that JKR created a strictly heterosexual 
WW.
> 


Annemehr:
It's not as though plenty people didn't notice.  There was certainly 
a lot of discussion on Main (the corner of the fandom I'm most 
familiar with) about, say, the possibility of Sirius/Lupin, and 
whether or not JKR would ever write a gay couple in canon.

Although, I'll admit that if I had never joined the fandom online, it 
probably wouldn't have crossed my mind, either.

*However,* now that she has said that she always thought of DD as 
being gay, it becomes clear that she did indeed *deliberately* leave 
homosexuality out of the books.

Personally, I'm happy with a gay DD, but I still can't help but 
wonder why, if she had a gay character in mind all along, that she 
completely omitted any hint of homosexuality from the books.  It 
could have been her publishers, I suppose, but I do find it hard to 
believe they could have made her omit it by the time she was writing 
GoF.



Katie: 
>  Personally, I would have felt it would have been horribly awkward 
> and unnessessary if DD had suddenly turned to Harry while 
discussing 
> Voldemort and said, "By the way, Harry, I'm gay. Just wanted to 
> mention it. So, about that prophecy..." : ) I mean, it just didn't 
> matter to the story. 

Annemehr:
Oh now, I'm sure DD could have worked in a good hint while he was 
talking about Grindelwald.  And as I said before, if JKR had just 
written a line here or there about a gay or lesbian couple at the 
Yule Ball, or kissing in the hallway or something, people wouldn't 
need much to pick up on DD/GG.

Annemehr