[HPforGrownups] Ron and Harry!!

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 7380

Hi --

Stephanie Becvar wrote:

> I have let built up frustration and anger on this subject simmer for
> far too long.  I want to voice...LOUDLY if i must, my disent at the
> slasher
> group...or whatever they are called.  First off by saying that we all
> know it was never JKs intent and it will never hapen being as thse are
> children's books.

Well, we really don't *know* that it is not JKR's intent. As best I
know, I've never read a JKR interview where she's said anything about
homosexuality or her intent with regard to homosexual characters.  We
can be fairly certain that each of the 3 main characters has expressed
some heterosexual tendencies at this point ... but they are only
adolescents.

And, uh, .... don't get me started on the whole "these are ONLY
childrens' books" after all business.  If they are ONLY childrens'
books, why are any of US here?????!  She's said over and over and over
(and Penny has repeated it over and over and over again) that she did
NOT set out to write children's books, and she has no target audience in
mind for these books.  The publishers figured they'd slap a 9-12 age
group label on the first book, based on the fact that Harry was 11 in
Book 1.  Noone asked JKR where these books were headed and if that label
would still be appropriate for Books 4-7.

> HP to me is not the melodramatic world of american television where
> virtually every show has a gay/lesbian character on it...(in case
> anyone wonders, I dont have a problem with gay ppl, all of my step
> mothers siblings are and i love them all to pieces)

Well, to be honest Stephanie, your post is making it sound a bit as
though you have a problem with it.  Maybe tv shows in America all have a
gay or lesbian character now because it's finally acknowledged that this
is representational of our society.  I'm quite sure that Susan will step
in with her arguments for why there should be a gay/lesbian character in
the HP series to serve as a role model for so many kids who feel so
excluded by mainstream culture.  While I agree with Susan in theory, JKR
may or may not have that in mind.  I'll applaud her if she does.  I do
agree that the 3 main characters exhibit no tendencies in this direction
but like I said, adolescents have been known to change their minds in
the course of all those raging hormones.

Like Heidi said, it's important to keep in mind that this is an
alternative universe that the slash fanfic writers are talking about.
All fanfic is in fact an alternative universe.  Thus, even if Ron &
Hermione get married at the end of Book 7, I can continue to believe in
my mind that it should really have happened as it does in PoU.  <g>

Penny


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