A Gay Potter Character?/I'm so happy

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 178206

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:

> Magpie:
> That's how race is, and this isn't handled like race. We know there 
> are people of different races (in Muggle terms) in canon, but this is 
> not remarked upon by the characters who have different distinctions. 
> In order to do that with gay people they'd have to be there 
> explicitly and not remarked upon. As it is in the books there are 3 
> mentions that I can remember that refer to same sex pairings. There's 
> Dudley (not a wizard) snarkily asking Harry "Who's Cedric, you're 
> boyfriend?" That's supposed to make Harry feel embarassed. There's 
> also Ron's comment that Percy and Crouch are going to "announce their 
> engagement any day now," which implies the same sort of attitude in 
> the WW as is often found in the Muggle world. Ron is mocking Percy's 
> attachment to Crouch by saying they should get married when they're 
> two men. And then there's Rita's nasty implication that Dumbledore 
> has a bad interest in Harry (does she actually say unnatural)? This 
> is more a charge of an adult preying on a child, but in this case 
> it's a same-sex predatory relationship.


Montavilla47:
I suppose if there is a moment in the books, then it might 
be when we see Crabbe and Goyle show up at the Yule Ball
in matching robes and no dates.  But, again, if that's a 
reference to them as a gay couple, it went way over my head.

I mean, Harry's a modern kid.  He could have caught any
number of TV programs at the Dursley's that have gay
characters.  If homosexuality is that accepted in the 
Wizarding World, would Harry have perceived Crabbe and
Goyle as "dateless" or simply thought of them as a couple?