[HPforGrownups] Re: The problems with DD being gay

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 178282

delwynmarch <delwynmarch at yahoo.com> wrote:          Katie wrote: 
> So, every teenager that falls in love with another teenager is going 
> to be a pediphile? 

Del replies:
I never said anything like that. Especially since I wasn't even
talking of pedophilia anyway.

<<<SNIP>>>
  > I see absolutely NO evidence in canon that DD was EVER attracted to
> young boys.

I agree. But then nobody in this thread ever argued anything of that
sort, so I'm not sure why you're even mentioning it. My own posts deal
with ephebophilia, the love of teenage boys, not pedophilia, which is
the love of young boys. Not the same thing at all.
  ***Katie replying:
  Well, to me, that's splitting hairs. If an old man is digging on a teenage boy, that's just as gross and creepy as digging on a 10 year old. They're both children, regardless of their ages. So, IMO, it is a very similar thing, if not exactly the same thing. And I see no evidence that DD dug teenage boys, either. 

> And to say so, IMO, really denigrates the character and 
> the story. 

Does this help you understand how people who think there is something
wrong with homosexuality feel about the revelation that DD is gay?
Whatever you think of their opinion that homosexuality is wrong, that
doesn't change how they *feel* about the character and the story now.
  ***Katie replying: No, it doesn't help me understand, because since one of the major themes in HP is bigotry and how bad bigotry is, I am suprised that anyone who loves HP thinks homosexuality is wrong. I find that upsetting. I guess I am just naive. 

I am just sorry that JKR wasn't courageous enough to make DD gay in canon, instead of this backpedaling stuff in interviews.  KATIE


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