Harry's Sexual Preference -- the closet - alternative explanation

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 79426

Just a general comment about the closet at Number Four, Privet 
Drive. I always assumed Harry slept in the closet because, as JKR 
notes in the opening paragraphs the Dursleys have a dirty little 
secret. Harry is the proverbial "skeliton in the closet" that they 
don't want the world to know about. They can't hide him from society 
completely so keeping him in the closet is metaphorical for their 
embarassament at his wizarding ability and heritage. 

If you're going to discuss topics of sexual preference, ISTM that 
PoA is the earliest real canon source with the major (so far) fodder 
coming in GoF and OoP.

A side note: This harkens back to the disucssion (and fury) over 
that article in some NY paper that interpreted the whole of HP as 
about gay life.

M.E.