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

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 40140

Amanda snipped:

> <rest of rather well-phrased and nicely analyzed discussion of 
>various sexual undertones, managing nicely to both put the point 
>across yet not be offensive>

Agreed!  Talk about threading the needle!  ;-)

Amanda:
 
> Okay. The only reason I post this is because there is a tendency 
>on the list, caused by the "me, too" prohibition, for silence to be 
>taken as consent in some cases. I am not arguing the analysis at 
>all, at all--it looks like a perfectly valid interpretation.
> 
> The thing that I must say, though, is that none of this, no 
>inkling or trickle or faintest flicker of this, ever occurred to me 
>in any of my many re-readings, until I read Elkins' post. Am I the 
>only one who never sees things like this? Am I the only one who 
>read this with total amazement?

No, you're not.  Like you, I saw the whole thing as creepy.  I guess 
one reason the scene is so good is that JKR does seem to be using 
some rather, erm . . . icky devices to make it creepy.  Had it been 
noticeable on a first read, then that would suggest that JKR was 
laying it on too thick.

Besides, did anyone say that they picked all of this stuff up on a 
*first* reading?  Geez, all I could think about in my first read of 
the graveyard scene was how JKR was going to wring 3 more books out 
of the series with the hero dead, dead, dead!

Then again, that's just me.  I haven't ever picked up on any of the 
big plot twists on a first read.  Or any of the minor ones either.

But OoP will be different!  You just wait!

Cindy (putting all of her eggs in the EverSoEvil!Moody basket)