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

[Feng Zengkun]

No: HPFGUIDX 178494

Del wrote:
   
  >>>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.<<<
   
   
  Zack Feng (aka me) now:
   
  Isn't that the exact problem, though? That assumption? If JKR had not expressly wrote that Blaise Zabini is black, the assumption that he is white would have carried on - mistakenly. It's the same with Dumbledore, isn't it? Just because it's not expressly stated doesn't mean the default assumption is right. 

Just as interracial relationships don't seem to merit express notation in the books, perhaps there are homosexual relationships that also don't merit express notation. Yes, I also understand that there are statistics supporting the 90 per cent straight, 10 per cent homosexual divide, but I find this 'default' assumption troubling, particularly since the Kinsey reports have long since exposed this 'straight/homosexual' dichotomy as deeply flawed, to say the least.





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