[HPforGrownups] Sexuality in HP (WAS So, why did Snape turn on Voldermort?)

[Rochelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 40123

jenny_ravenclaw wrote:
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<Re. Ron as the thing Harry misses the most>
>
> As interesting an interpretation of the text as this is, I disagree.
> Why can't Harry and Ron's friendship be just that?

Personally, I think it is, and again, here's what I said:

> 1)From the "easily ignored" category, we have the thing that Harry
> would "sorely miss" [p.463] which, of course, turned out to be Ron
> [p.498] Granted, this is innocent enough; Harry IS ron's closest
> friend.  But especially when given the fact that two of the other
> three competitors had to rescue their girlfriends/dance dates (Krum
> had to save Hermione; Cedric had to save Cho), the homoerotic subtext
> here isn't that hard to find.

Note that I placed that episode under the "easily ignored" category,
i.e. something that's highly debatable and in all likelihood innocent...
but, if you wish, to, you CAN take it in a riskier direction very
easily.  It all depends on how you want to see it.

> Perhaps we would *like* JKR to take a risk and write a gay character.

*g* Maybe she already has.  Although I have no proof of this, for some
odd reason, Remus Lupin sets off my gaydar, and I know of quite a few
people -- even people who aren't necessarily slash fans -- who just
suspect he is without really knowing why.

> However, I can't
> imagine that happening, so for now, I'll have to say that any
> homoerotic subtext is in the imagination.  Then again, I'd say H/H is
> too, but once again, that's just me.

All in the imagination, eh?  I notice you didn't say anything about the
incident near the end of GoF. *g* Of course, given how... ah... touchy
that part of the story was with all its sticky implications, I wouldn't
blame you for not wanting to talk about it.

*Rochelle.
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