heteronormativity in the potteruniverse

[susanmcgee48176]

To my brothers and sisters and those who choose not to embrace eiher 
gender..

Oh, goodness, yes, we would have liked George to be involved with a 
male friend, and same gender couples kissing at the Yule Ball, and 
not having the only (openly identified by JKR) gay character as being 
celibate after tragically falling in love with the wrong guy. (AND 
for the record, GG could have been gay, straight, bisexual or 
transgender, we don't know
..they could have had sex, we don't 
know..and we don't know whether GG was in love with DD. I suggest 
that GG WAS in love with GG because he showed remorse in his old age, 
and didn't tell Voledemort, I'd love to speculate that it was because 
in part GG didn't want Voldemort to desecrate DD's tomb). Yes, we 
would have liked less of a heteronormative Potterverse.

Yet, if we want to judge JKR's work by purely political grounds - 
meaning [(yes right wingers – here it is the vast HOMOSEXUAL 
CONSPIRACY you've told us again and again is out there)  this is our 
AGENDA... that the world will see lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, and 
trans gender people as other human beings deserving of dignity, 
respect, full civil rights
that we are diverse, some of us good, some 
of us making bad choices, some of  us are evil, some of us are 
celibate, some of us have multiple partners, some of us find the 
special beloved soul mate to whom we cleave forever and ever
that 
there are flawed individuals who make the evil choice to sexually 
molest a child or a youth - but that flaw is not the flaw of 
orientation
meaning that the adults who rape children are mostly men, 
are mostly heterosexual in their adult orientation, that some of them 
are men who are gay in their orientation, that there are a few women 
who molest/rape boys or girls...


If we measure JKR's work by THAT goal..she has accomplished a huge 
amount. Note the anguish, the fury, the angst, the disgust of the 
right wing fundamentalists at the disclosure that DD, the most 
powerful wizard in the world, who is a good and great man (as Harry 
says at the end of DH), who like all good and great human beings 
(Gandhi, Mother Theresa), had flaws
the guy in the plum suit with the 
wonderful sense of humor, he who gave people second chances, who 
trusted, who loved
.he's gay. Bravo, JKR
...

But my analysis of Ms. Rowling is that she really did not have a 
political agenda.  She did not make DD gay delierataly... he  He 
popped into head that way. But the fact is that she didn't interfere 
with his orientaton,  and SHE doesn't think that being gay is bad. 
The End. (As mad eye would say).