[HPforGrownups] open letter to JKR

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 155544



Schlobin at aol.com wrote:

>
> (snip)
> There really needs to be a lesbian and/or gay male character in the Harry
> Potter series. And…as everyone in the whole world knows, there’s only 
> one more
> book to go. It’s possible that your original visualization of the HP
> universe did not include any giblet characters. I don’t know.
> Perhaps there is no out lesbian and gay character because you wrote the
> books from Harry’s point of view, AND he is just discovering his own 
> sexual
> orientation and feelings, and does not see or perceive any same gender 
> pairings,
> so there are none in the book.
>













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I disagree.  I am not a bigot, but I feel that adding gay characters 
will distract from the story as much as putting the spotlight on any 
specific race, religion, etc.  JK has neatly sidestepped religions, 
sexual preferences, real world political party divisions and 'muggle' 
human racial prejudice (i.e.. skin color.. she replaced it with fantasy 
half-humans or nonexistent race bigotry instead).  This is a fantasy 
book and doesn't need muggle concepts like sexual preference, religion, 
etc. jammed into the magical world.  It already HAS magical/mythical 
equivalents.  The Harry Potter books are not gay/lesbian literature, 
they are written for the mainstream public.  As such, it would be 
literary suicide to change the focus of the books, even without meaning 
to change it.  The media focus on the books would change the books in 
the minds of the public to 'gay literature'. 

While yes, there needs to be books with gay/lesbian characters, it 
should be with a NEW series, NOT using an existing popular series as a 
political soap box for gays/lesbians.  Maybe you are not trying to make 
it a gay/lesbian soapbox, but thats exactly what the book would become 
if the media focused on added gay/lesbian characters. 

So no......   If the books had such characters from the begining, it 
would be okay, but its too late in the series and the style of the books 
too defined to make such a change.  The books are NOT about sex, 
sexuality or sexual preferences, so theres no reason to change them to 
make them such.

Not to mention people will be too busy in the last book saving the world 
to worry about dating, one would guess....

Jazmyn



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