OoP: Sirius as close as we're going to get

[skaistar2004]

No: HPFGUIDX 66081

> "He 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." OotP, US 
> Hardcover, pg. 642
> 
 
> Well, I interpreted the above passage as simply another clue to 
> Sirius's extreme "coolness" in high school.  Apparently, he was so 
> dead sexy he could afford to let the girls come to *him*.  You 
> know, the whole hard-to-get routine.  
> 
> P.S.  Speaking of...Did you know that pyronecrobestiality is 
> against the law in California?  Presumably, it had to have been a problem 
> at one point. (eek)

I don't think that Sirius is/was gay.  I agree with Laura Ingalls 
Huntley about this passage being more indicative of his coolness.  He 
just didn't notice some random girl pining over him, which gave me 
the impression that it happened often.  While I think his sexual 
orientation is a moot point in the story of Harry, even more so now 
that he is dead, I also find it hard to believe that a gay character 
would feature prominently in a children's book- which doesn't in any 
way mean that there shouldn't be homosexuality in children's books, 
just that there isn't (usually).   

On a more shallow note, I don't want Sirius to be gay because he's 
the top of my "Dead Sexy Blokes" list and I hate falling for the 
(fictional and now dead) gay man.  

What is pyronecrobestiality?

Skaistar