God, I Love Rumors... (WAS: Re: interview)

[Joe Earles]

No: HPFGUIDX 20010

This *IS* Harry Potter for GROWNUPS, isn't it?  Honestly....

>And the possibility of JKR revealing it without causing an immediate
>explosion of "Harry Potter's Godfather Gay?" headlines and a
>raft of talk-show debates is even less plausible.
>
>Amy Z


See, this is where someone's "sense of humor" can really make a mess of
things. Forgive me, but WADR was this little joke *really* worth the
controversy?  Was it really worth several threads worth of responses and
speculations? Is the person who started the rumor trying to ruin the Harry
Potter experience for the rest of us?  Honestly, the things some people do
for fun or think are funny... I'm at a loss.  You can call me anything you
want...say I'm a homophobe, call me intolerant or narrow-minded but for the
half-second I thought it might be true all my visions of sitting with my son
reading the books with him - being able to say, "Here, son, is THE great
fairy tale for your generation," reading along with him with a sense of
pride, watching him marvel at Harry's world the way his mother and I do -
just vanished into a funk. I then regained my sense of logic and decided
that the source of the information was WAY too suspect to take seriously.
Further investigation proved me corect. Still, I'll be damned if I'd ever
put something in front of my kid that validates that kind of lifestyle and
tries to portray it as normal.  The little joke that was played on this
group was nothing short of sick.  I hope beyond hopes that it will end right
here, that further less-than-wholesome speculations be kept to the
speculators' own selves, thereby quelling any further tarnishment of this
story, its characters, its reputation or its charm.

Flames may be directed to jearles-at-berkshire-dot-rr-dot-com, for the sake
of keeping it off the list. I'm sure there will be a few....