One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "constant2chatter" 
<Churchmouse365 at ...> wrote:
>
>  For the life of me I can't figure out why she did this,
> and for the record the story did not need sex.  Any kind of sex, and
> for that matter, I thought it stood on its own as a right of passage
> from,childhood to adult.  Certainly no one of the living has had 
more
> problematic childhood than a psychopath trying to kill him at every
> turn and an allied group to assist on command, and schoolwork that
> could blow you up if you did it wrong.   I really thought Dumbledore
> was more than a little fond of the school nurse.  First Dumbledore
> coming out of the closet, really being thrown out by the author,
> changes the story substantially, Dumbledore is the HEAD MASTER,of a
> school, and he takes particular interest in Harry.  The Greeks 
thought
> the most ideal love was between a teacher and his student, women 
were
> just for procreation.  Well, guess what I am not an accent Greek 
and I
> am not amused.  If anyone has noticed the Greek civilization ended
> badly.  These books are no longer for young children, and you should
> hear some of the questions I got at my house.  Now given that books
> like the scarlet letter, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin,God of 
Small
> Things by Arundhati Roy, Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, July
> People by Nadine Gordimer, and some smutty Japanese literature were 
on
> the reading list in the high school my oldest daughter attended, by
> that comparison Harry Potter is quite tame.  However, as a fan I 
feel
> betrayed because she started the series to get YOUNG children,to 
read,
> especially boys.  Even the choice bothers me; I could have seen
> Gildaroy Lockheart as gay even Hoarse Slug horn But Dumbledore, What
> purpose did that serve?  The editor was right the story was better
> without all of this, Universal is spending about a billion dollars 
to
> build Hogwarts and Hogmead village, they have a court case, it is 
not
> family entertainment anymore.  I wonder how WB is going to handle 
this
> in the movies, carefully I hope.  It just goes on and on, a few
> careless words and whatever good she did with the series 
destroyed.  I
> am so pissed.  Thanks, Constant
> 
> 
> r 
> > > parents, their religion, their culture, and often because they 
have 
> > > read something that presents ideas that are different than what 
> > > their parents, religion, and culture have tired to instill in 
them. 
> > > Now I hear you thinking, well then it is good that DD is gay. 
No it 
> > > isn’t, if the books do not get past the sensors, be it 
government, 
> > > school or parents.
> > 
> 

Well, gosh, let's talk about this again.

Saying someone is gay does not introduce "sex" into the books.

Being gay is an orientation. Are all straight people having sex?

Next, being gay should not be equated with child sexual abuse.
This is bigotry. It is slander. It is disgusting.

Susan