RE open letter

[katssirius]

No: HPFGUIDX 155574

A "new" gay character would not have to be introduced.  We have lots of
characters including most of the staff whose sexuality is unknown and
does not need to be explored in the context of the book.  It merely
needs to be one more piece of the the background fabric to make it more
colorful, more like the magic world and the real world.  Being straight
or gay is not a book topic or controversial.  It just is, like whether
or not someone is a centaur or a house elf.  The next time Flitwick
comes up someone mentions "You know his partner's family was killed by
Voldemort"  or when Prof McGonigle is overwhelmed with her new duties
she could lament that Poppy and she had not had a vacation in years.
It is that simple, one sentence, no more, and a character is known to
be gay without changing the focus of the story or upsetting anyone who
is not all ready trying to get the book banned.  By the way the British
Medical Journal published that the weekends the last two Harry Potter
books came out ER visits by kids dropped 40%.   They believe this is a
direct result of kids staying home to read the books.  Not bad for a
book's influence.

katssirius