[HPforGrownups] Re: the gay question (longish)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4051

I said:

>> Question: Can we expect JKR to create the ideal, egalitarian world we 
>> *don't* have in a series of fictional stories about a school for 
>> witches and wizards, centred on a boy who is barely into his teens 
>> (and seen from his POV)?  No, we can't (IMO).  These are works of 
>> fiction; the product of imagination.  

>Who's talking about the "creation of an ideal, egalitarian world?
>There are lesbian and gay youth in every high school. This is about
>the REAL world. Not the world that some people would like to imagine 
>it is.

Actually, this isn't about the REAL world, this is about a work of fiction.
This is about the world JK Rowling would like to imagine it is.  Isn't it?  

Neil


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