A Gay Potter Character?/Remus and Tonks/Trouble with Being Gay/JKR shut up

[marion11111]

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> Magpie:
> If that's true I'd really feel badly for Arthur Levine. It would 
> break his heart to be told he had to cut gay characters from a book 
> in his imprint because they were gay--and he'd probably fight tooth 
> and nail to get them in there. Not that I accept this is what 
> happened. It's hard for me to think that Harry Potter's book sales 
> would be cut into that much because there was one gay character. 
> (Meanwhile Pullman's happily writing gay angels in his best-
> sellers...)
> 

marion11111:
Had to laugh at the last line!  I suppose Pullman's books do qualify as best-sellers, but 
they don't get read much; at least not by kids.  This is hard to explain, but Harry Potter is 
widely read, Alex Rider is widely read, The Clique is widely read, Ramona used to be widely 
read, etc. His Dark Materials doesn't get read much because it's so darn difficult!  Anyone 
who is able to get through these books is probably the type of person to not flip out over 
gay angels and horny witches and church/religion-bashing.  

I said it on the OTChatter: Harry Potter is like nothing we've seen before in children's 
publishing and so can't really be compared to anything else.  And let's face it, those angels 
aren't Dumbledore.  People feel so strongly about the characters in HP and talk about 
them as if they were real people.  Gay Dumbledore is clearly a Big Deal.  I can't think of any 
other popular children's book with such a major character being gay. 

Sorry to go completely OT.