JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[sistermagpie]

> Tonks:
> If God or DD is gay he is out of bounds for her psychologically. 
> Since usually a young girl's father is a love object for her, if she 
> had a bad relationship with her real father she has to make any 
> substitute father figure out of bounds as far as 'falling in love' 
> goes.  She can not therefore be 'in love' with God or with any other 
> father image. It is a subconscious thing. It is not about sex, so 
> her husband is a different story. Althought she may have had some 
> difficulty in relationships with other men in her life before her 
> current husband, because a girl's relationship with her father will 
> have an effect on all other relationships with men after his.

Magpie:
That's a lot to assume about another person, isn't it? Is it really 
JKR doing the projecting? I'm not claiming to know what's going on in 
your head, but I remember after JKR's words about DD that *you* said 
that *you* equated DD being gay with his witholding love from you or 
rejecting you--iow, with being someone *you* could not be in love 
with, and this was a loss for you. But I don't think we can assume 
this is such a universal thing that JKR, too, must necessarily be 
using homosexuality as a symbol of DD being off-limits as a love 
object for her. It's just as possible that she just created a 
character and he seemed to be gay the same way Ron seemed like he'd 
make a lot of mistakes with women and Neville seemed like he'd like 
plants. Maybe while she was dreaming up the relationship with 
Grindelwald it just struck her that this was what the character was 
feeling for him, rather than a specific part of his personality that 
made him off limits to her. 

-m