[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Harry Gay?

[Louise E]

No: HPFGUIDX 55621


sirius kase wrote:

>>Rowling has already devised a way to deal with unpopular, secretive,
>subcultures.  Just take "wizard" and replace it with "gay".  If you
>are interested in racism, replace "wizard" with "black".  If she
>explicitly wrote about homosexuality, she'd lose much of her audience
>for no reason since she already has a good device for dealing with the
>problems of "special" and "misunderstood" people.
>
>


You don't even need to replace the word wizard with "black" or "gay" etc to 
see Rowling's device for dealing with prejudice.  She deals with it in CoS 
with the issue of mudbloods and purebloods.

Personally I think this confronts the problem and moral issue of prejudice 
well and that making a character gay just for this reason would be 
completely unnecessary, as I don't think it has any real relevance to the 
story.

Lou



She is the cloaked woman in mourning, but she is not Despair, even though 
Grief is her domain; tears flow from her ceaselessly and her house looks out 
upon the Walls of the Night.  Instead she is Pity and Suffering that brings 
wisdom and endurance beyond hope; from the waters of her tears much is born 
that is unlooked for, yet it is often that which sustains life.






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