JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "oakandbadger" 
> <oakandbadger@> wrote:
> >
> > See:  
> http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Television/article/300045
> > 
> > In Canada, 10:00 pm Eastern
> > 
> > Sounds as if it will be really interesting!
> 
> 
> Tonks:
> I lifted this from the story at the above link:
> "The early years of Joanne Rowling are fraught with ephemeral 
> incidents and enduring memories that would shape the Harry Potter 
> narrative. From her mother's losing battle with multiple sclerosis 
> to Rowling's eventual estrangement from her father, the series' 
> aesthetic, spiritual and intellectual genesis is rooted in her own 
> uneasy formation."
> 
> Well now this does explain a lot, doesn't it? I am talking about 
the 
> part where she is estranged from her father. No wonder she has only 
> one father figure in the book that she didn't kill off, but tired 
> to. I bet it was her editor who suggested that maybe she shouldn't 
> kill Arthur because he was the only good father figure in the 
> books.  It also explains, I think, why DD is gay in her mind. Since 
> DD is the closest thing to God in the series, especially early on, 
> it would make sense for her to project on the DD the same sorts of 
> things that a woman who did not have a good relationship with her 
> own father might project onto God.
> 
>

So, you're saying that JKR thinks of DD as gay because she didn't 
have a good relationship with her father. 

She thinks therefore that a better father or a better God would be 
gay? She thinks that heterosexual men are more abusive than gay men? 
Or worse fathers?
I doubt very much that JKR has such a biased view of heterosexual men.

Or are you saying that being gay is bad...and therefore because JKR 
didn't have a good relationship with her father..she equated him with 
God the Father, Albus Dumbledore, and made DD gay because gay is bad?

Please explain.

Susan
(who adores DD, who always did even when I thought he was straight, 
and is delighted that he is NOT God, i.e. perfect but a heroic, 
strong, loving, powerful, and very flawed human being...just like 
every other great and beneficient leader)