My Post Again

[mhershey2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 78855

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Carolina <silmariel at t...> 
> wrote:
> > Severus:
> > 
> > << O.K. Let me start by saying that there is no real proof to
> >  support the Harry is gay train of thought, but there is quite a
> >  bit to support that he is straight.>>
> > 
Silmariel:
> > In fact I think we were discussing the Harry/Bill subtext, or 
that 
> > is where I catched the thread. 
> > 
> > silmariel
> 
> Snape here:
>      I have to disagree, what I stated has happened in the book, 
> what your friend is doing is speculation, Harry has not looked at 
> another male and felt the warm fuzzies as he did with Cho.  I have 
> alot of gay friends, and enjoy there company, and find some of them 
> pretty damn cool, but let us not confuse cool with sexual 
attraction.
> I will maintain that Harry is straight by his actions in the 
> Potterverse.  
> 
> Severus

Mhershey- 

I have to agree that the canon in this case does not lead me to 
believe that Harry is gay.  Immediately preceeding the recognition 
that Bill is cool, Harry is contemplating the fact that he always 
imagined Bill to be something like Percy, sort of fussy and rules 
oriented, since he worked for Gringotts. (I don't have my book at 
work so I can't give a page or quote) This in contrast to  Charlie, 
whom Harry always assumed would be cool because he worked with 
dragons in Romania.  Harry's thought that Bill was cool was simply an 
observation about a fascinating Weasley member.  We have already seen 
numerous times where Harry displayed envy of Ron and his life, home, 
etc., and his observations about Bill merely add to Harry's interest 
in all things Weasley.  Yes, the Weasleys could produce children with 
a wide variety of personalities.  One could argue that Bill was at 
one end of the spectrum and Percy the other, but that is a whole 
other theory.

Mhershey