Harry's sexual preference

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 78770

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> <<<"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.

O.K. I can buy the Snape thing, but as far as Harry and Ron, no way.  At the quidditch 
thing, with the Weasley's, Harry tried to jump out of the stands to impress the Veela, 
and Ron was doing something equally stupid.  Hermione and Ginny were unaffected, 
why?  Because they don't like girls that way, it's that simple.  Harry, Ron, Bill, Charlie, 
Percy and Arthur were affected by the veela, why?  Because they do like girls that way.

Enough Said.

Severus