Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > colebiancardi:
> > 
> > well, then, Snape was also written as asexual - he also had no 
sexual
> > orientation in canon until DH.  Yet, due to his Love Of Lily, he
> > turned out to be straight!!  
> > 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I know, I know, I cannot happily imagine Snape hopping to bed with 
> Sirius anymore ;) or with Harry. Forever ruined in my imagination.
> 
> And it was not a bombshell for me at all, but ruined, oh dear, 
ruined.
>


But I disagree...just because someone's sexual activity or 
relationships are not mentioned that doesn't mean that they are 
asexual, and bboymin...sorry, but being old or being celibate doesn't 
mean you stop being straight or gay....(is that what you meant?)

And I would argue and have argued that DD being in love with GG (and 
since I do accept JKR as canon, I do think he's gay), that has a lot 
to do with the story and the plot, and his reaction to the one he 
loved being part of his sister's demise, and being evil, and 
abandoning him to face the consequences of their actions 
alone....goodness! it says a lot about DD that instead of becoming 
nasty and hateful and unhappy (like SS)he becomes an advocate of love 
and the oppressed.

Susan