possibly a gay character????

[lake4fam at earthlink.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 27180

   Fine, but only if that character has some other vital reason to be 
in the story.  
   So far, JKR has not explored any matters of sexuality with her 
characters.  If there are homosexuals in the story yet, IMO, they 
would have been Gilderoy Lockhart (he of the quintuply award-winning 
smile) and Rita Skeeter (she of the arrogantly misquoting quill.)  I 
think that this is rather like the old time stories in which the 
characters never had to attend to bodily functions.
   Actually, I am not convinced that we need a gay person to enter 
the Potterverse SOLELY for his/her orientation.  
   What I guess I am trying to say is that that facet of personality 
is not the only one that makes a character interesting.  Having a 
really interesting character with a real part to play is the most 
important thing.  So what if the character is gay.  
   The other way smacks way too much of political correctness, and 
would be contrived and out of place the world as written by JKR.
   
dittany/custodienne - who does not wish any one to take her words as 
a personal insult