Showing my ignorance (was Homosexuality in HP)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 105228

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000" wrote: Hope 
this isn't going too OT, but who is Jane Hathaway?>>
<<spinelli372003" wrote
...Jane Hathaway was Mr. Drysdales secretary at the bank ...I think 
the actress who played her died though.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says (ex cathedra)

I don't know in what context the name "Jane Hathaway" came up in the 
thread, but the relevance to the thread may lie in the fact that the 
character was a mannish, stuffy New England spinster who had an 
incongruous schoolgirlish crush on big, goodlooking lug "Cousin 
Jethro". Ironically, or maybe just interestingly, the actress (who is 
indeed deceased) actually was a mannish New England spinster, and a 
lesbian.

Somebody in this forum (don't remember whether they were quoting or 
being originally brilliant) said something to the effect that good 
writing is a relationship between the author and the reader. Nobody, 
after all, likes to be told *exactly* what to think, but rather to be 
shown something engaging.

By the way, how credible could a story about a fourteen-year old boy 
be without some wand-under-the-covers references? (yeah, ewww, I 
know, but...)

--JDR