The possibility of a gay character

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 70957

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Possibility? You mean Sirius and Remus are *straight*? What about 
Draco?

I don't think children will 'lose innocence' over the presence of 
same-sex relationships as they are portrayed in the Potterverse any 
more than they do in the real world when they realize exactly what 
Daddy did to Mommy to produce them. That is, they are totally grossed 
out at first; left to their own ruminations and given time to 
reflect, they come to terms with the physical reality of sex.

We're talking about an adventure yarn here, not a bodice-ripper (or a 
jockstrap ripper). There's no 'need to know' about anybody's 
sexuality, which pretty much boils down to what they think about when 
they masturbate (ick, right?) Myself, I thought the whole Cho Chang 
thing was contrived and intrusive.

As to the fan fiction controversy (I love fanfic -- you can have your 
canon characters any way you like them!), my understanding is not 
that JKR moved to stop fanfiction, just to restrict access to PG17 
and higher (lower?) rated material so that young readers following 
links couldn't happen onto anything they couldn't handle.

Restricted sites are doing a booming business in material that ranges 
from rated PG13 for implied homosexuality to hard-core gay porn that 
would terrify Graham Norton. However, unlike some authors who will 
not tolerate *any* fan fiction, JKR has expressed appreciation of the 
fact that readers love her characters, relate to them, and have given 
them lives in the world she has created far beyond the scope of the 
stories she has written.

--JDR (Harry's gay, too. Try not to think about it.)