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

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 79549

<<<"Kathryn Cawte" wrote:...Love and affection between people are 
(imo) a blessing and should be celebrated whatever form they take.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Hear, hear. Oh, wait-- public display of affection, ick; so just the 
love.

Additionally, it can't be emphasized enough that rape and sexuality, 
along with prejudice, violence, war and all that "grownup" stuff, 
exist in children's reality. It doesn't make it any easier on a 
sensitive child that adults refuse admit that a child may be dealing 
with such things, forcing the kid to live with the horror alone in 
his own head. If the hero is gay and four-eyed, if his best female 
friend is a bucktoothed, frizzy-haried ubernerd, if his best bud 
wears hand-me-downs, if parents get murdered and teachers get raped 
in a world controlled and adored by adults, maybe a potentially 
suicidal child could be encouraged to seek help and guidance in his 
world.

--JDR