Homosexuality in HP (was Re: Ringdear of the Marauders: Sirius or James?)

greatelderone greatelderone at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 8 21:37:51 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 105122

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)" 
<ginamiller at j...> wrote:
> Gina: I do not plan on arguing this point and I think it is WAY OT 
anyway,
> but JKR has said that she is Christian and uses that in her 
writing. The
> Christian bible does not really endose that sort of thing. 

GEO: But where did she say that she agreed with everything the bible 
says?

> I do not see
> anything homosexual about anything in these books just like I do 
not see a
> need for the comments that Harry was really doing something other 
than his
> homework under the covers. That is just absurd and it seems like 
to me that
> people are trying really hard to grasp at straws to see what they 
would LIKE
> to see in the books 

GEO: How exactly is a homosexual relationship anymore gross than a 
heterosexual way and we've already seen several in the books 
(Harry/Cho, Arthur/Molly)? 

> instead of the simple innocent things that are really
> there and it is gross for people to distort a kids book like that. 

GEO: How exactly is a homosexual relationship anymore gross than a 
heterosexual way and we've already seen several in the books 
(Harry/Cho, Arthur/Molly)? 

The initial books may be written for kids, but the latter ones seems 
to be geared for the adult and ya population afterall some things 
depicted in the books wouldn't exactly be suitable for children.





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