Harry's Sexual Preference

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 79393

<<<Jen Faulkner wrote:
(1)...that personality, interests, and interactional style ("sissy 
boys" and "tomboy girls") are quite different from sexual 
orientation... 
(2)Besides, it's obviously McGonagall, Tonks, Justin Finch-Fletchley, 
Lupin, Hooch, and Grubbly-Plank who are gay.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

(1) I still say you can't have sexual orientation unless and until 
you have sex. Then you have to have different kinds of sex, and then 
you have to decide which you prefer. (I did say it was 
controversial.) That's why I say if you go strictly by canon, nobody 
is gay, but nobody is *straight* either, because nobody actually 
engages in sexual intercourse. A large part of the target demographic 
for these books is at an age where the appropriate response to the 
physical reality of sex is "eewww!" 

However, since this is a grownup forum:  
(2) I think we all agree on Justin F-F, Lupin and Tonks. Draco Malfoy 
and Snape: the thought of either of them actually *doing it* with a 
female squicks me out completely. McGonagall is strictly a spinster 
lady (celibate). Hooch, yeah, maybe, but it's too obvious; and 
Grubbly-Plank --well, why not just hang a sign on her? I think JKR is 
above such a cheap shot. Then there's Ginny. Wild girls like that can 
go either way, or both.

--JDR