Harry's Sexual Preference

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 79409

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, jdr0918 wrote:
> 
> > Maybe the 'closet' metaphor for Harry is deliberate.



I have avoided this discussion altogether because I don't have any 
particular thoughts about it now, and I can see myself taking it far 
too seriously, but I know other people enjoy it and don't want to be 
the rain on their parade. 

However my reply here doesn't rain on anyone's parade, just offers 
another idea, so I'm posting it.

I always thought the closet was deliberate, but I so do not think it 
was implying he was gay.  I always thought it was the Dursleys psyche 
at work putting Harry in the closet (literaly, not metaphorically).

They detest anything remotely related to magic, and since I at least 
believe that Dumbledore filled Petunia in on a lot more than she's 
been admitting, she knows Harry is *very* magical.  Even before he 
came to live with them, they did everything they could to distance 
themselves from Lily and "her kind".  Then they got stuck with Harry 
after the attack in Godric's Hollow, and there was no avoiding it, 
they came face to face with the reality that magic exists and is 
connected to them.  What do you do with things you have to keep, but 
don't want to see? 

No, not under the bed. 

I don't know about you, but my closet is filled to the brim with 
things I've been ignoring for years.  But my Clueless-era mini 
backpack isn't walking around and talking to *gasp* the neighbors. 


Harry is the ultimate personification of the skeleton in their 
closet. 


Of course, that's just how I read it.

~Margaret