[HPforGrownups] Re: Homosexuality in HP

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 105124

Gina:
I do not plan on arguing this point and I think it is WAY OT anyway,

Oryomai:
How is this OT?  Discussing possible SHIPs in the books and theories for the future is, IMO, the best part.

Gina:
JKR has said that she is Christian and uses that in her writing. The Christian bible does not really endose that sort of thing. 

Oryomai:
Just because someone is Christian does not mean that they agree with everything in the Bible.  I used to be a Christian, and I didn't agree with it then.  No one follows Christian dogma to the last letter.

Gina:
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. 

Oryomai:
I personally don't see ESE!Lupin.  That doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to discuss it.  I don't know if we'll see a homosexual character in the series -- but why not?  And as for people's comments, why don't you "see a need" for them?  Isn't discussion about possible undertones and themes part of reading?  That's why I read -- to see what's not told on the surface.

Gina:
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 instead of the simple innocent things that are really there and it is gross for people to distort a kids book like that. Just my opinion and I stand firm on it but I do not feel we should be talking about this here anyway.

Oryomai:
How is someone else's opinion absurd?  Unless we're specifically told that something isn't true, there's always a possibility.  Discussion is about seeing what we want in the books -- interpretation and the like.  No two people get the same thing out of Harry Potter...that's the beauty of it.  You don't see homosexuality.  I don't see MAGIC DISHWASHER.  Does that make either of us wrong?  No.

Now, for some canon: James got married, so we can assume at the very least that he's bi! ;-D

Oryomai
--There *cannot* be a Sirius/Severus SHIP!  Severus is mine!  MINE!!