The possibility of a gay character

[williamhause2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 71040

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oh have faith" 
<rshuson80 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "madeyemood" <nansense at c...> 
> wrote:
> >> 
> > Hello!
> > I'm new here and I wanted to say: hurray for this topic. Ever 
> since I put down 
> > Book 5 I've been dying to discuss.
> > 
> 
> I say:
> 
> Hello!  and hurray for your post!  I enjoyed reading it very much 
^_^
> 
> > 
> > I know that i'm describing super stereotypical qualities in all 
> sorts of rash and 
> > unintentionally inappropriate ways. it's difficult to describe 
the 
> process of 
> > employing one's gaydar without such offensive shorthand.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I was trying to avoid doing that myself, but since you 
started 
> it!  Two characters strike me particularly; Professor Grubbly-Plank 
> is the ultimate in public-school-hockey-socks lesbian IMHO, and 
> Dumbledore is by far the campest character in the books. 
> 
> Of course, this doesn't imply that they are gay -one can be a 
sporty 
> girl or a camp man without it meaning anything in terms of your 
> sexuality- but it does address the issue of the standards of 
> stereotypical gender behaviour, from which discussion of sexuality 
> inevitably raises its ugly head.
> 
> In certain cases, I think, or hope, that even if JKR never actually 
> labels a character as homosexual, she may intentionally leave their 
> sexuality ambiguous.  It's a bit of a lousy Star Trek Enterprise*  
> style trick to crassly heterosexualize a character for no other 
> reason than to quell speculation. If it never becomes an issue in 
> the plot, I doubt she'd actually focus on it, but there's certain 
> characters who are gay in *my* head at any rate, and unless there's 
> specific canon evidence to the contrary, they will remain so.  It 
> would make no real difference to their essential character, their 
> motivations, even their friendships (gay people being just as 
> capable of platonic friendship as anyone else).  It's just another 
> interesting level to a character, and it demonstrates that JKR has 
> created wonderfully believable and complex characters that we can 
> imagine them to have a life beyond the printed page.
> 
> ^_^  Faith's Girl
> 
> *apologies to Ent fans who might find this offensive - feel free to 
> email me to take issue!


Perhaps it will be revealed in book 6 that Voldomort is gay.  It will 
be a key plot point because it was Hagrid's rejection of him that 
caused Tom to turn evil.