One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Tonks]

> Celoneth:
- why is this minor detail generating so much controversy? 

Tonks:
It is for the same reason that her series is popular to begin with. 
I was shocked that she say that she did not know why the series was 
as popular as it is. I thought she planned it that way, but she 
really doesn't seem to know.

There is a part of each of us, call it the collective unconscious if 
you wish, that takes in these stories and understands them on a very 
deep level. The HP series is a metaphor. Hypnotherapist use metaphor 
for the purpose of touching that deep part of each of us that 
understand ultimate truth in a way that our conscious mind does not.

The HP story has touched that deep subconcious part of people. It is 
this part of our psychic that connects us beyond creed, nationality, 
culture. And it is because she is tampering with this part of our 
psychic that people are upset. I am not anti-gay. But I am upset 
that the vision that I have of DD is being tampered with. It is a 
type of betrayal. It is as if DD were living a lie in the books. And 
this is not the way for her to treat the epitome of goodness. She 
makes him look like a liar and a fake. She is telling us that our 
deep intuitive sense of our most beloved person is wrong. She is 
messing with the subconscious mind, and whatever a person feels 
about gay people in the real world, it is upsetting to challenge our 
inter vision of a character we thought we knew. The subconscious 
mind is not rational. This is why there is such a strong reaction 
from so many people. 

Tonks_op