Harry's Sexual Preference SHIP

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 77862

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, An'nai Jiriki <xmezumiiru at y...> 
wrote:
> I like to read certain characters as certian ways. And
> until JKR comes out and says 'Harry is straight' or
> 'Harry is gay', then I will continue to read him how I
> want. 

Just because you can doesn't mean you are right, or that others will 
like it when you express "divergent" opinions.  If you express such 
views, don't blame the rest of us if you get a few flames.

> I see him as a very confused boy afraid of any
> sexuality. His relatives are not the best, as they do
> not treat Harry well and show him what true affection
> is. He obviously had no idea how to treat Cho both
> before and after. I can see him as, in later books,
> experimenting with another boy. I do not know how he
> will settle later (but's it's fun to play).

I don't see him as confused, but as simply without any models for a 
good relationship of any kind in his early life.  (He was too young 
to get much out of his parents' relationshiop.)  With no model for 
affection of any kind, it isn't surprising that he would not know how 
to act upon his own feelings or to react to others expressing 
affection (or whatever else) towards him.

> And to severusbook4, if you don't like to read it,
> don't. There is no canon either way for gay or
> straight, especially after Harry says specifically he
> was not moved by the kiss or the date. _And he says in
> book four he was not sure if he liked Cho for being a
> woman, herself or beauty, but for her Quiddich skills.
> And what if Harry turns out to be bisexual and forms
> the realization that it doesn't matter the sex of the
> partner, just as long as it is love?

He noticed her as being pretty first.  Later confusion is a different 
matter.

Harry did NOT say he was unmoved by the kiss or the date, apart from 
saying that the kiss was wet, and that the date didn't go well at 
all, we know that he was surprised and apparently desirous of the 
kiss, and very unsure of what he should (and shouldn't) do on a 
date.  It all worried him.  He didn't know what to do.  This isn't 
unexpected for a teen boy who is entirely straight, and even less so 
for a boy with no model for what constitutes a healthy relationship, 
courting, or much of anything else, having been kept in a cupboard 
for most of his first eleven years.

I remember very well my first kiss, and being very surprised by just 
how wet it was.  We were both clueless, though, as it was also HER 
first kiss.  It took a little experimentation before we decided that 
wet is good, but kissing in general was good no matter the moisture 
content.

Thus far, Harry is portrayed very well as a heterosexual boy with 
little experience.  That's it.  If people want to read homosexual 
overtones into what has been presented thus far, it is no indication 
of his really being gay or bi, but of the character and predilections 
of those readers.