Harry's sexual preference

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 78750

<<<"darrin_burnett"  wrote: The "surest indication." HOW?...she is on 
the rebound and a jealous bitch besides -- and that means he's gay? 
Portable closet?...she was using Harry as an emotional tampon to get 
over Cedric...No, I'm not back full time.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

(Not back full time?? Get back here and take your lumps. Don't make 
me sic the Cho Chang Tong on you.)

How she's the surest indication that something's up with Harry is 
more the fact that she exists, as they say. She pops up out of plot 
point nowhere, as if there were no pretty, ethnic-exotic, Quidditch 
playing girls with established personalities for Harry to fall in 
love with. Ron's hormonal angst is described in an easy, natural way. 
Harry's "crush" on Cho, on the other hand, is handled so awkwardly 
that it's downright creepy. Even Hermione, the other woman, feels 
sorry for Cho. I'm sorry, but guys who treat girls like that almost 
invariably turn out to be gay or priests or both. How is she a 
jealous bitch if a guy asks her out on a date, and dumps her to meet 
another girl? If Harry had tried that on Hermione, she'd have hexed 
his butt to a fare-thee-well.

Speaking as a person who actually was a teenage girl decades ago, I 
have to *hope* Harry turns out gay -- I wouldn't wish that drama on 
my worst (female) enemy.

That said, my serious adult opinion of the Potterverse is that there 
is no sex, period. Nobody's gay, nobody's straight. We're dealing 
with a Ripping Yarn here. The principals are Jolly Chums. The tale 
ends when the chums are too old not to have dealt with physical 
sexuality.

And THAT said, *serious* adult opinions are of questionable 
appropriateness here. Herbal tea, people, herbal tea. It's fiction, 
remember? The flaming wizards can't hurt you...

--JDR

PS: Ron isn't gay. Snape is. Everybody else is reader's choice. I 
have spoken.