[HPforGrownups] Harry Potter is a CHILDREN'S BOOK re: rape sexual preference

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 79505

At 06:20 AM 9/1/2003 +0000, Mark D. wrote:
>I've just read about 20 posts regarding Umbridge's possible rape at
>the hands of centaurs as well as Harry's sexual preference.
>
>EXCUSE ME Harry Potter is a Children's Book!!!
>There are plenty of SLASH websites if you wand. I personally feel
>you're giving JKR a great insult by thinking she'd put it in her
>books.
><snip>
>As for guessing on Harry's sexual preference, again Harry Potter is
>a Children's Book!!!
>
>Also Harry is now only 15. He has never had friends before Hogwarts.
>and there was only one described crush in the Potterverse... Cho. As
>for Harry not understanding girls, what male does?

At the risk of a "me too" post I'd just like to second the above 
statements. The one thing that I liked about people going on and on about 
these two far fetched topics was that I was able to delete a LOT of 
messages with out reading them.

Now I'd like to say that *nobody* in the Harry Potter books is gay. Rest 
assured that they are all celibate until we are told otherwise. JKR is more 
likely to tackle her social issues through magical maladies a la Remus 
Lupin disease and it's parallels to children born HIV positive. This allows 
those who are ready for such topics to explore them and those that aren't 
to just enjoy the fantastic story.