[ SECRET POST #4043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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Comments

Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Couldn't it just be an unambiguous mention somewhere in the text?

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

I am unsure why an old man would have felt it appropriate to discuss his sex life with an 11-17-year-old to whom he stood in loco parentis.

Maybe something might have come up at the funeral? Maybe?

But the sex lives of most of the teachers aren't brought up either - the books are from the POV of a child/teenager, in a culture with a lot of Victorian overtones. I suspect most of them simply did not consider it an appropriate area of discussion with the kids.

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Why would he have to mention sex at all?

Something like "There was a man I was in love with who did terrible things. I held the hurt I felt close to me and never really moved on. Don't hold onto your pain too closely, Harry, it can hold you back in ways you may not be able to see for a long time."

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Would it have been weird for him to have mentioned a woman he was in love with? I doubt most people would think it was.

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

I love that we can have an implied beastiality joke in the text, but apparently canon gays are unthinkable.

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't have to have been a discussion of his sex life at all. Certainly not an explicit one. It could easily have come up at the funeral, it could also have come up in the context of the 6th book when Harry and Dumbledore have several long, personal conversations. It doesn't.

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I get really annoyed that LGB people are reduced to "sex lives" when my straight co-workers have spent the last half hour talking about their children and reactions to Grammy gossip about who cheated on whom.

Re: Why would she have to write a romance at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, with most teachers in the series we know minimal amounts about, we tend to know their sexuality: Hagrid, Snape, Lupin etc.