One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[susanmcgee48176]

> I'm also bothered by the timing of these calls for JKR to shut up. It
> never seemed to be an issue before she announced DD being gay
> something that imo provides some nice context for the plot and not
> half as out there as Ron becoming an Auror. Of all the interviews
> that's she's given and all the background she's provided - why is this
> minor detail generating so much controversy? 
> 
> Celoneth
>
Because of all the tremendous bigotry and hatred that is directed 
against lesbians and gay men.

Now, of course no one on this list is a bigot or has hatred towards 
lesbians and gay men. But there are a tremendous lot of assaults, and 
murders, discrimination in housing, throwing away of gay youth from the 
home, discrimination in the workplace, etc. etc. here in the United 
States.

Check out the Leaky Cauldron. Dumbledore has been diminished 
(why?)..Dumbledore has been irrevocably changed..NOW we know why he 
spent all that time with Harry....how COULD she have put sexuality in 
the books (huh? nothing but kissing between mixed gender couples is in 
the books)..we've been duped..we thought this was a FAMILY book (okay, 
that assumes that the only REAL families are those with mixed gender 
parents)

SUDDENLY...Salon and the New York Times and everyone else is suggesting 
that JKR shut up and stop interpreting her characters..

Did we hear ANYthing like this when Christopher Tolkien published a 
book based on his father's notes? Did we hear problems with J.R.R. 
Tolkien publishing the history and back story of Middle Earth in the 
Silmarillion? Nada...

I think many of the people on HPforGrownups have already been voicing 
this complaint...so I have less issue with the folks on this list...

But I think someone on the main list said that there was no problem 
with DEAN Thomas' back story being put on JKR's website....

It's all about prejudice, ignorance and bigotry.

Susan