Gay Characters

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 71243

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dreambeliever001" 
<dreambeliever001 at y...> wrote:
> It seems to me by reading all these posts that a majority of the 
> characters in HP are gay.  Lets see, we have: Sirius, Remus, 
> Dumbledore, Harry, Voldemort, Snape, Grubbly-Plank, Tonks, etc. 
etc. 
> etc.
> 
> JK will probably mention in Book 6 how Sirius was in love with a 
> woman but she was killed in the Order.  I would do it if I were 
her 
> also, because this subject is getting talked to death and if she 
read 
> these posts (which she probably does) she probably would get tired 
of 
> it.  

Not at all!  It's just an interpretation of the text. Most cases 
will likely neither be confirmed or denied unless it becomes 
relevant to the plot in terms of their motivation or background.  
But I said before and I say again, to crassly heterosexualize a 
character for no reason except to stop people saying they're gay is 
a clumsy, pointless trick which I don't think JKR would resort to.  
And what's more, it doesn't work.  It has that "protest too much" 
quality that makes people go "Ahhh, but!" 

 Besides, what skin off her nose is it, if people want to speculate 
about her characters?  And why would she get more tired of people 
speculating about same-sex ships than girl-boy ships?  At least 
they're engaging with the book – as a some time author myself, I 
know there's nothing more gratifying than people getting into what 
you've written, even if they do interpret it differently to you.  
She'd have no reason other than plain spite and prejudice to do 
this.  

And I don't suppose she reads this list, either – I don't have time 
to read it all, and she has a more time-consuming job than I do! 

Faith's Girl