Gay Character (was: Harry's Sexual preference

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 78541

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "say543" 
<hesdead_dealwithit at h...> wrote:

> Are you sure? What if there is a gay character in there already? And
> no, not Harry. Has anyone thought that Tonks might be gay?

While IIRC several people have suggested that Tonks fits some 
(contemporary) lesbian stereotype or other, she is not the first 
character to do so. When we met Professor Grubbly-Plank as substitute 
CoMC teacher in GoF: "an elderly witch with closely cropped grey hair 
and a very prominent chin" she "barks" at them and speaks "briskly" 
and "shortly", she teaches Unicorns and says: "Boys keep back! Girls 
to the front," and I was *sure* that JKR had inserted a not very 
affectionate parody of a political lesbian. (Do the under-40s know 
what a 'political lesbian' is? My short and biased explanation: a 
woman who CHOSE to be a lesbian because of an ideological belief that 
all men are evil and almost all women are good.) I was very relieved 
that Professor Grubbly-Plank is portrayed much nicer in OoP.