Canon citation requested (was Re: The problems with DD being gay

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 178465

Julie wrote:
> My question to those who protest based  on this
> argument is...Please state the canon that supported Dumbledore being  
> straight.

Del replies:
There is no NEED for such canon, for two reasons.

First, because straight is the logical assumption until being told
otherwise. 

Heterosexuality is the largely majoritarian sexuality in the RW. So
the rule is that anyone who isn't expressely said to not be straight
is probably straight.

Parallel:
White caucasian is the largely majoritarian ethnicity in the British
RW. So the rule is that anyone who isn't expressly said to not be
white is probably white.
Case in point: Blaise Zabini. Until JKR wrote him as black, he was
simply assumed to be white. And nobody saw anything wrong with that,
because that's the way characters are implicitely built up in books:
if they are not expressly different, then they are "normal".

So if DD is not expressly different, then he's straight.

> Some percentage of any  population is gay
> (don't recall the actual number, maybe 10 percent?), so *some* 
> students or  teachers at Hogwarts can be presumed to be gay,

Actually, no. I just said that the rules of the RW can be
automatically transplanted to the WW, but that works only as long as
they are not directly contradicted by the content of the books.

Example: racism is still a big issue in the RW, and multiracial
couples keep attracting some level of attention, positive or negative.
But it isn't so at all in the WW. No racial remark of any kind is EVER
made.
For example: Harry takes Parvati to the Yule Ball and later dates Cho,
and yet he never ever gets any kind of reflection about "liking them
tanned", or inversely about "making a good point", or anything.
So it seems that something that is still quite prevalent in our world,
racism, simply doesn't exist in the WW.

So what about sexuality? Can we assume that what works in the RW still
works in the WW, or do the books say otherwise?

Well, what the books tell us is that there simply isn't ANY visible
non-straight character around Harry. None. Zero. Period. No same-sex
couple kissing in the corridors or bushes or dancing at the Yule Ball.
No same-sex partner, present or past, mentioned for anyone. No
character dating once a girl and once a boy. No *nothing*. Only one
sexuality is EVER mentioned, and that's heterosexuality.

Now, if the books were situated in the RW, then you could argue that
this doesn't make sense. However, the books are situated in another
world. A world which, though directly in connection with the RW, has
been shown to be markedly different from it. 

So it might not make sense that only heterosexuality seems to exist in
the WW, but it still seems to be the case. That's the way those books,
this world, are written.

We can even imagine rational reasons for why this is so. For example,
we know that magic is genetic. Could it be that this gene also
conditions a magical person to be heterosexual? But that's outside the
scope of this discussion.

In conclusion:
1- Assuming that there must be gay wizards because there are gay
Muggles is normal.
2- BUT this assumption must then be checked against what the books
actually say.
3- And what the books say is that wizards are all straight.
4- DD in particular is described as neither straight nor gay.
5- Thus, both normal assumption and the way the WW's sexuality is
described make him straight.

DD is straight, both by classic character building assupmtion, and
because everyone is described as straight in the WW.

Del