07-25-2003, 07:00 PM
Case for a gay Harry Potter:
He spurned the lovely Pavrati Patil AND her cute younger sister in book 4, then completely let's go a groupie craving his attention, not to mention the one gal he has eyes for: Cho Chang. Is there even an ounce of manblood in this young fellow?
As an old sage once said: "He who spurns the wanton wench is a fag!" (Attributed to Peter Spraezer)
However, there are three possibilities that put that simplistic line of thinking into considerable doubt.
1) Harry is madly in love with Hermione, she does not realize it, yet he sees intuitively that she and Ron are simply doomed to get married, their having already perfected "giving each other the red ass via nagging" technique. Harry's unrequited love for Hermione will surface in about book 6, and be a major plot distraction.
2) Harry has still not hit puberty. Rowling does not know how to broach that, IMO, and in any case, some guys break late. He's fourteen, so he may one day wake up, take the sheets to the laundry, scuffle into class late, take one look at Cho Chang smiling back to him, experience wood, and subsequently pass out from the immediate loss of blood to his brain. 'Tis a common enough malady in classrooms the world over. :) He will then have arrived, so to speak, and will start to act more consistently with typical hormone crazed foolishness as regards the fairer gender.
3) Given that Rowling is a woman who is not writing a romance novel, perhaps she chooses to build Harry as a virtuous young lad whose vile upbringing by the Dursley's has somehow managed to imbue in him the virtue of a Paladin, so Harry is basically celibate by choice, and clumsy with girls due to his underdeveloped social skills ages 1-11. Living under the stairs will tend to have its side effects, don't you think? :)
I'd go for option 3.
He spurned the lovely Pavrati Patil AND her cute younger sister in book 4, then completely let's go a groupie craving his attention, not to mention the one gal he has eyes for: Cho Chang. Is there even an ounce of manblood in this young fellow?
As an old sage once said: "He who spurns the wanton wench is a fag!" (Attributed to Peter Spraezer)
However, there are three possibilities that put that simplistic line of thinking into considerable doubt.
1) Harry is madly in love with Hermione, she does not realize it, yet he sees intuitively that she and Ron are simply doomed to get married, their having already perfected "giving each other the red ass via nagging" technique. Harry's unrequited love for Hermione will surface in about book 6, and be a major plot distraction.
2) Harry has still not hit puberty. Rowling does not know how to broach that, IMO, and in any case, some guys break late. He's fourteen, so he may one day wake up, take the sheets to the laundry, scuffle into class late, take one look at Cho Chang smiling back to him, experience wood, and subsequently pass out from the immediate loss of blood to his brain. 'Tis a common enough malady in classrooms the world over. :) He will then have arrived, so to speak, and will start to act more consistently with typical hormone crazed foolishness as regards the fairer gender.
3) Given that Rowling is a woman who is not writing a romance novel, perhaps she chooses to build Harry as a virtuous young lad whose vile upbringing by the Dursley's has somehow managed to imbue in him the virtue of a Paladin, so Harry is basically celibate by choice, and clumsy with girls due to his underdeveloped social skills ages 1-11. Living under the stairs will tend to have its side effects, don't you think? :)
I'd go for option 3.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete