[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR messed up........ no.

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 178364

> k12listmomma wrote:
>> Before, the series was about Harry Potter, and not about
>> anyone's sexuality. By making Dumbledore gay now, she has made this
>> work about sexuality, and that does change things.
>
> Miles:
> No, the work is not about sexuality because one of the characters is gay,
> and thus it does not change things.


Several people have said "it does not change things", but I think it would. 
The fight with Grindewald is just one example that I would have seen 
differently: if she had announced DD's gayness and romantic relationship 
earlier, because that famous battle could have possibly been a "lover's 
quarrel that got heated", and DD's sister got killed in it. I think 
Aberforth would have had ever more reason to be angry at DD- putting his 
love and attention to another man rather than spending his love at home. It 
changes what we would think of DD possibly, if he wasn't fighting over power 
and treatment of Muggles, but for something far more different.

Shelley

> Miles
> To repeat a question I asked before, what good is a message of tolerance
> that excludes certain groups for tactical reasons?

I don't know if we will ever know if when she wrote about tolerance and 
acceptance during this entire series if she had gays in mind.

Shelley