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

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 20052

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Joe Earles" <jearles at b...> wrote:
> 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....

Well, apart from the fact that it was obvious to most that this was a 
joke... why do you think it was sick?  What is so unwholesome about 
homosexual relationships?  Instead of making comments which do come 
across as being stongly homophobic, couldn't you either keep your 
opinions to yourself or contact one of the moderators if you feel a 
particular post is out of line?

Catherine