OoP: Sirius as close as we're going to get to a gay character?

[idlerat]

No: HPFGUIDX 65494

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> > Laura says:  OOP, US Hardcover, p. 642
>  
>  - - - 
>  He [Sirius] was very good-looking; his dark hair fell into his eyes 
>  with a casual sort of elegance neither James's nor Harry's could 
> ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him 
> hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.
>  - - -
> 
> 
> Kirstini (me):
> It's funny, but I read this passage as suggesting (ever so subtly) 
> that Sirius wasn't really interested in girls.

snip
 "not in a 
> children's book". Why on earth not?


I concur.  I've had this thought about Sirius before.  And I think
that if kids are old enough to know that people fall in love with
people of the opposite sex, they're old enough to know that other
people fall in love with people of the same sex.  Depending on how
they're raised, though, they don't.  So it doesn't surprise me that
this hasn't come up yet in the books, since they're from Harry's PoV
and he might not even know what he was looking at.  I think sexuality
is going to become much more important by book 7.  I think Harry is
facing big moral tests, one involving Snape and I suspect another
involving Ron, and I further suspect that *at least* one of these will
touch on romance, past or present.  

Of course the other candidate for a gay character is Lupin.  I would
love it if Lupin and Black were romantically attracted back in school,
but I ha' me' doubts.

cheers
Idlerat
who is full of suspicions.