Harry's Sexual Preference SHIP

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 77927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richard" <darkmatter30 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 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.   
> 
> Actually, there is no reason to assume that.  In fact, one thing 
> Harry might have been worried about was how he might stack up to 
> Cedric in the kissing department.  Although Harry only saw Cedric 
> and Cho holding hands while walking through the corridors, I think 
> we've had ample evidence of other students snogging (Percy and 
> Penelope, Roger and, well, any girl within spitting distance <g>) 
> that it's quite likely that two students in fifth and sixth years 
> who were seeing each other might have kissed.  That pressure alone 
> could be a very big reason why Harry didn't seem too thrilled with 
> his first kiss--he was probably too busy worrying about being 
> compared to Cho's late boyfriend to really enjoy himself.

I believe you missed my point, and there is no assumption involved.  
I was describing MY first kiss, and how I felt about it, and 
that "wet" being a first and most-striking impression for someone's 
first kiss isn't that odd ... and thus doesn't support a gay Harry 
hypothesis.

As for Harry's first kiss, well, in a sense it wasn't his first kiss 
FROM a girl.  He already had one from Hermione.  (Whether that kiss 
was "with intent" or not is a different debate.)  But, he hadn't 
kissed her.  There is also all that background snogging implied by 
various events, so yes, Harry was likely worried at some level about 
how he stacked up ... but not until later, a la his response comment 
about him being "that bad" at it, did he worry about how that kiss 
stacked up to Cho's past experience.  Before that kiss, he seemed to 
be wondering how one went about ALL this romance stuff period, and 
not about how to kiss Cho.  That just sort of happened, from his 
perspective, as she initiated it.

And this gets back to what I had said before.  Harry has no early 
model of affection, tenderness and love before age eleven, except 
that of his parents who died too early in his life to be models for 
much of anything.  It should be no surprise, then, that Harry has 
more than a few open questions about how romance is supposed to work.