SHIP Harry's Sexual preference- Sue

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 79899

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jeffl1965" <jeffl1965 at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Well we know Seamus seems to be fairly outgoing and sociable, 
also 
> >he's Irish so people assume that an older Seamus is going to enjoy 
> >alcohol (not that I'm implying all Irishmen are drunks but they do 
> >have a bit of a reputation for lively partying and partaking of 
> >alcoholic beverages). So we've got party-animal!Seamus without 
> >straying too much from canon - it's only a small step from there 
to 
> >slut!Seamus. It's similar to the reasoning that gives us slut!
> >Sirius - Marauder-era Sirius is young, sexy, long haired, and
> > owns a flying motorbike ergo he must be the school slut ....
> > 
> 


Jeff:
>     Yeah, I can see Party-Animal!Seamus fairly easily. :) In a way, 
I 
> think the way that JRK wrote him, is almost insulting with her 
having 
> him wanting to make rum at age 11. To me, that implies that he's 
> already a drinker, which might be true, but not something that she 
> should point out early on as part of his make-up.
> 

Geoff (a different one just to be confusing!)
Not necessarily so. There is a side of us which likes to experiment 
with "grown-up" things when we're younger. I can remember having a 
pull at a cigarette when I was about 8 and not liking it one bit! I 
didn't smoke then until I was about 18 and gave it up for good at 21. 
I think it's the same with drink. Experimenting - and possibly being 
dared by others.



Jeff:
>    The same can be said about how she presents the Weasley family. 
> Their poor, red-haired, and have a large family. Sounds like a stab 
> at the Irish to me. Perhaps not totally intentional, but still.
> 


Geoff:
I see the Weasleys as a great family. Dad is conscientious and works 
hard and also wants to work at something which rewarding to him in 
other ways; hence he has perhaps a lower paid job. I taught for 32 
years. I could have gone into other careers when I left school but 
felt that teaching was a vocation. We were never as poor as the 
Weasleys but we never had the sort of money to throw around as Lucius 
in the book. I never regretted it though. And often large families 
pull together and the siblings are close to each other.