[ SECRET POST #5321 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5321 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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Things were a little more complicated than that. Some readers were already frustrated because she'd written this long-running series with a sprawling cast, all of whom were apparently straight, and concluded it with an epilogue that paired a bunch of characters off into m/f relationships to really hammer that home.

And then the interview came out, and it was revealed that she hadn't written the books that way because she was blind to the idea that any of her characters might be queer. No, one of her characters was queer and she didn't think that was worth mentioning in the text. Even though it could've actually been a really great thing for children's/YA publishing of the time if its most popular series ever included a canonically queer character. So some of the frustrated readers from the above paragraph felt a confused mixture of happiness that queerness apparently did exist in the HP universe and disappointment that it still didn't exist in the text.

These confused emotions were further complicated by the fact that, okay, Dumbledore was gay according to Word of God, but he was just one character out of a cast of dozens, and he also had a very stereotypical gay plotline in which an early romance went terribly wrong and apparently caused him to give up on the idea of romantic companionship entirely and spend the rest of his long life alone. So queerness existed in the HP universe, but only in the form of a single elderly bachelor whose sexuality had caused him personal misery. None of the many younger characters were allowed to be queer, and none of the characters were allowed to be queer and happy. It wasn't a particularly validating set of story choices even if Dumbledore's sexuality had been canon. Which it still wasn't.

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