JKR messed up........ no.

[Miles]

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k12listmomma wrote:
> 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.

Miles
Could you please quote canon to support this possibility? The initial
quarrel was between Aberforth and Gellert, Albus tried to stop the fight. I
don't see how your interpretation could be possible?

k12listmomma wrote:
> 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.

Miles
But that was exactly what Aberforth thought and what he was angry about.
There is not much difference in a deep friendship and the same plus sexual
attraction, both can absorb people's attention totally.

k12listmomma wrote:
> 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.

Miles
You mean the showdown in 1945 now? Again I do not see any reason for your
interpretation of canon. We learn in canon that DD *hesitated* to face
Grindelwald - which means that his emotions (whatever kind they were) did
not drive him, but slowed him down.

k12listmomma wrote:
> 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.

Miles
Everything else would be revolting for me. Is there any reason to think that
she does NOT include non-heterosexual persons in her scope of tolerance?
>From the first book on I'd thought that JKR would never say "no" to racism,
but "yes" to discriminating homosexuals.
It was always clear in my impression, that her scope of tolerance is that of
a typical modern, liberal, educated, and cosmopolitan person - which
includes acceptance of homosexuality as something normal and neither "good"
nor "bad" in itself.

Miles, still wondering if the gap between "typical" or not concerning this
question turns 180 degrees when crossing the Atlantic ocean