Sexuality in HP

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 40190

>jenny_ravenclaw wrote:

>> 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.

And Pen wrote:

"After all, the two who had to rescue their girls were both quite a bit
older than Harry, and might reasonably be expected to be making good
progress along the path to sexual maturity.  Harry, at fourteen,  was just
getting to the point of Noticing A Girl, but hadn't managed to do anything
about it.   Just how important could Cho have been to him, when the only
conversation he seems to have had with her was the abortive attempt to ask
her to go to the ball with him?   Ron, by contrast, is the first friend he
ever made, and Harry has already learned how important Ron is,  through the
experience of missing him while they were estranged.

Different flavour of love."

Another interesting point is that Fleur's hostage was her sister. By the logic that since Harry rescued Ron he must be gay, Fleur's family life is infinitely more disturbed. Isn't one of the "points" being made here that love can come in many different forms, e.g. romantic love, sibling love, friend love?

"rosie"


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