Homosexuality: Was: Snape as the lover of Regulus Black

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153514

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jazmyn Concolor <jazmyn at ...> 
wrote:
>
> No, he is not gay. Why? Because its a mainstream CHILDRENS book 
and the 
> publisher will not allow a gay character no matter how much some 
of the 
> fans want it.  ... While he might look good in black 
> leather buttless chaps.. we are not going to see him in the 
Wizards Gay 
> Pride parade anytime soon.  Bad enough there are shippers who have 
him 
> as a pedophile, chasing Harry!  Come on guys, its just not 
happening in 
> a children's book and I doubt JK will be writing romance novels 
for that 
> universe no matter how much money she's offered.


Magpie:
I agree that there's no evidence in canon that Snape and Regulus 
even knew each other well much less were lovers, but mainstream 
children's books--more importantly mainstream YA books, which is 
what HP has definitely become by this point in the series--are fine 
with featuring gay characters, and they're hardly the next step down 
from the "bad enough" case of someone being a pedophile. (PThough if 
Snape became attracted to Harry in Book 7 it would not make him a 
pedophile, since Harry is not a child.) Gay adults, gay parents, gay 
teenagers all appear in Juvenile Lit.

-m