Wondering

[delwynmarch]

susanmcgee wrote:
> From what other character have we suddenly jumped from a tidbit 
> about their past lives, to the fact that they might be a child 
> molester. 

Del replies:
I never presented DD as a child molester. I used neither the word
"child" nor the word "molester". The words I used were "teenage boys"
and "attracted to". I even explicitely said that even within the scope
of my ephebophilia theory, I would still see DD as someone who *never*
sexually acted on his attraction once he was a man.

> It's not accepted or borne out by research that there's this huge 
> difference between child rapists who molest youths and child rapist 
> who molest boys.

I never talked of anyone molesting or raping anyone. So I don't see
the relevance of this information to my theory.

> Anyway, JKR says DD was in love with or infatuated with GG, and that 
> she thought of his as gay, and told a screenwriter he is gay.
> 
> Suddenly the message boards are filled with -- oh so that's why he 
> spent so much time with Harry....

I wouldn't know about other HP boards since this is the only one I
participate on or even read. On this board, though, this
representation isn't accurate: my single theory can hardly be said to
have "filled" the board.

> No one has ever come with such a scenario about a straight person in 
> the books. Strange.

There have been several "So-and-So is sexually dysfunctional" theories
on this board at least. For example, maybe you weren't there when
someone posted a theory about one of Harry's possible trials having to
do with Bellatrix trying to seduce him, but I do remember it.

> So this coincidental, innocent portrayal of DD as a man who's 
> infatuated with young boys has to been seen in a larger context.

A context I know nothing about, since as I said, I don't read other
boards. I participate only to 3 boards:
* one French board about an obscure Young Adult sci-fi writer, on
which the "DD is gay" announcement hasn't even been mentioned;
* one typology forum on which the announcement has been discussed in
one thread, but only under the angles of "what does it change" and "it
should have been in the books";
* this forum, where I was the only one to propose this theory.

Del