Wondering

[Carol]

lizzyben wrote:
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> I actually don't have a huge problem w/arguing that DD is an 
ephebophile, heck, I've argued that he might be a psychopath. But what
I don't understand is the leap so many people are making from "he's
gay" to "maybe he's a pedophile!" After all, he was still invisible
while presumed straight, & no one thought to speculate that maybe he
was spying on female students then. 

Carol responds:
Which makes me wonder what the reaction in certain quarters would have
been to DD's interest in "Harriet" Potter, had JKR decided to make her
protagonist female. Maybe we'd have seen Rita Skeeter-style reactions
among the opponents of the books from SS/PS forward. (Or maybe they
were there and I just didn't know it.)

Honestly, I think we're all making a mountain out of a molehill (JKR's
revelation, I mean).

Carol, tired of playing "middlewoman" and trying to bow out gracefully