Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake

[Mike]

> > Mike wrote: 
> > Dumbledore wasn't written as gay, he wasn't written as straight,
> > DD was written as asexual - he had no sexual orientation in 
> > canon.
> > 
> colebiancardi:
> 
> well, then, Snape was also written as asexual - he also had no 
> sexual orientation in canon until DH.  

Mike: Yep!

> colebiancardi:
> Yet, due to his Love Of Lily, he turned out to be straight!! 

Mike:
Yeah, that sucked all the way around, didn't it? I mean, how could we 
have possibly known  Snape was straight, unless you count the clues 
that leaked out between the lines that got the LOLLIPOPS and other 
like theories started. But,... but wasn't the Snape/Sirius slash just 
as likely as Snape and any icky girl? Just look at how easily he 
resisted any temptation from the Black sisters at Spinner's End. 
Could any straight guy have not proposed a threesome when those two 
beautiful women showed up at his door?


> colebiancardi:
> OMG.  I do wish JKR would have prepared me better for that 
> bombshell. I don't know why she didn't write Snape's straightness 
> prior to DH.

Mike:
Alas yes, I too wish Snape wasn't written as the soppy, straight 
syncophant that he was. Wait, wait, he never consumated his love for 
Lily with sex, did he? Maybe he thought of Lily as just a real good 
friend that he loved for her mind. Maybe the idea of having sex with 
her was as TEWW EWW for him as it was for us. 

Yeah, that's the ticket, Snape couldn't hold onto Lily because he 
really was gay and Lily needed more in their relationship. That 
Mudblood crack was a red herring. He knew she was straight and 
couldn't bear the thought of her with a man, so he lashes out in mis-
directed fury to give himself an excuse for not getting intimate with 
her. Oh yay! another reason to dislike Snape, he's also a cowardly 
straight-impersonater.

Mike, thankful for colebiancardi putting him on the right track ;)