[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Kathryn Lambert]

delwynmarch <delwynmarch at yahoo.com> wrote:          
> Katie: It's true that they are too young to have read 
> Potter yet, but I certainly don't plan to open 
> my first reading of it to them by saying, 
> "Mommy's going to read Harry Potter to you now, 
> and by the way, before we begin, Dumbledore is 
> gay like grandpa." It's just not necessary for 
> a reading of the book. As you and I agree, 
> there is no reference to gayness in the books, 
> so why bother with it?

Del: I was seeing things from the other way around: 
the parents of kids who have already read HP, and 
who now learn that DD is gay. If homosexuality is 
an issue for those parents, then this outing of DD
has put them into "damage control" mode without 
any advance warning.

> I have plenty of other opportunities to 
> discuss gayness with them. HP does not need to 
> be the platform. 

Precisely! There are parents out there who don't 
appreciate being put on the spot of having to 
discuss gayness here and now with their kids, by 
JKR outing DD out of the blue. If JKR had written 
DD as gay, those parents could have chosen 
whether and when to let their kids read HP, and 
they would have been able to plan a discussion on
homosexuality. Instead, out of the blue, they 
find themselves *having* to have that discussion 
*right now*. I can understand that they are pissed.

Del
   
  ***Katie: Ahhh. The sweet wind of peace and pleasantness. :) I feel much more comfortable with this conversation, now that we're lightening the mood a bit. 
   
  Now, I can't understand why they are pissed off, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to discuss it with young children. I still don't think gayness is something to be upset about, and I never will understand that POV, but I *do* understand not feeling something is appropriate to talk about with little kids. 
   
  Of course, then again, I don't think little kids should be reading books about death, suffering, child abuse, torture, evil, and obsession, either. : )
   
  Katie, just happy we've (not just me and Del, but the whole group) toned down the rhetoric and we're actually *talking* to each other


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