One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" 
> <Schlobin@> wrote:
> > > Magpie:
>  Why are those the two "you could 
> > > see" but there's a problem with Dumbledore? Because Lockhart's 
a 
> > > vain pompous guy obsessed with appearance and Slughorn's a 
> prissy glutton? 
> 
> Susan:> 
> > Yes, Magpie, good point...it's okay if a cowardly, prissy, 
> pompous, unethical Lockhart is gay...or if a old fat admirer of 
> Riddle Slytherin is gay....THAT jives with people's stereotypical 
> view of gay men...but for the bravest and best wizard in the world 
> to be gay? 
> 
> 
> Tonks:
> I just want to point out that what you have just said above is 
also, 
> what was the word we are not going to use? The B word. You are 
> implying here that someone who is old, or over weight is seen as 
> less that human. Slughorn, in your eyes,  isn’t 'good enough' to 
be 
> the gay one. You are saying that someone like Lockhart who is 
> cautious, and cares about their appearance, is prissy and cowardly. 
> Do you see my point? No one is without some prejudges against some 
> group or other. The problem for me in all of this bickering back 
and 
> forth is that truth gets lost. Whoever is not like US, is 
‘them’. We 
> are all discriminated against one way or another. Like it or not, 
it 
> seems to be a fact of life. I wish it were not so, but it is what 
it 
> is.
> 
> Tonks_op
> old, fat, and prissy.
>


Tonks, there's a different between prejudice (an unreasoned dislike 
of someone) and oppression (which is prejudice backed up by the power 
of the state)....and some of us think that there IS something that 
can be done about oppression...it's NOT the way of the world 
everywhere and change CAN and HAS happened....women can now own 
property, vote and speak in public in the U.S. and African Americans 
are not held as slaves...

BTW, I am prejudiced, but against skinny, tall and beautiful 
people..being old, fat and dumpy myself...but I have no state power 
to back up my prejudices...

Lockhart and Slughorn are portrayed as very unsympathetic characters..
I'd find them both very pleasant but Lockhart steals people's stories 
and memories, and is sneaking out of school rather than try to rescue 
Ginny..Slughorn is portrayed as a manipulative, not too brave 
spider...trading influences...
Susan