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Oh, for goodness sake
Okay, so I haven't gone to bed yet. I was reading the Remus/Hermione essay over on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ship_manifesto. (Ah, my secret HP het ship, why isn't there more of you?) Anyway, I went to one of the commenters journals and found an absolutely charming rant about Harry Potter of which this is an excerpt of:
And yes, it's all in caps. Urgh. So apparantly, by default, all HP characters are interpreted as heterosexual. Do you think JKR used a drop down menu like the following for the default sexuality setting of the characters?
[Poll #453535]
And she invoked the name of Anne Rice - Supreme Goddess of Wank. Priceless.
ship_manifesto. (Ah, my secret HP het ship, why isn't there more of you?) Anyway, I went to one of the commenters journals and found an absolutely charming rant about Harry Potter of which this is an excerpt of:I'M SORRY IF YOU DO A LOVELY JOB OF 'BOYSEX' -- IT DOESN'T BELONG IN FICTION WHERE THE CHARACTERS ARE, BY DEFAULT, INTERPRETED AS HETEROSEXUAL. GO READ A SERIES WITH CHARACTERS THAT DO, AND THEN WRITE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT.
I AM SIMPLY SICK AND TIRED OF WATCHING HELPLESS CANON BE PILLAGED WITHOUT REMORSE TO SATISFY EVEN THE PERFECTLY NORMAL FANTASIES OF (OFTEN) THE FEMALE READERSHIP ENGAGED IN FAN-FICTION. IF YOU WERE TO DO SO TO ME, I WOULD INTELLECTUALLY KNOCK YOUR BLOCK OFF. IN FACT, I PLAN TO FIND OUT JUST HOW ANNE RICE DID WHAT SHE WAS ABLE TO DO TO PROTECT HER CREATIONS FROM THIS MINDLESS SELF INDULGENT BEHAVIOUR. IT WAS A BLOODY BRILLIANT MOVE.
And yes, it's all in caps. Urgh. So apparantly, by default, all HP characters are interpreted as heterosexual. Do you think JKR used a drop down menu like the following for the default sexuality setting of the characters?
[Poll #453535]
And she invoked the name of Anne Rice - Supreme Goddess of Wank. Priceless.
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And maybe The Gay isn't overtly and in youir face in the books, but for me, it is in the film. Imagine the turning-into-a-werewolf scene if it was played with a male and a female - you'd automatically assume something was going on between them. Same when they're both male. And that hug! When they see each other again after so long! It's better than the Spacemonkey hug.
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He is!
The film is so laden with Sirius/Remus subtext it's unbelievable. That hug is way better than the Spacemonkey hug. The Spacemonkey hug is brotherly in comparison.
The books though - it's not in your face, but it doesn't make you think, "Oh, that Remus, he's totally straight, he wouldn't touch Sirius with a ten-foot barge pole ". I wouldn't think that until JKR had him shagging Tonks over the kitchen table at Grimmauld Place (oh god please no). Actually, he would only be doing that because he felt dead inside after the death of Sirius and he thought that if he had Sirius' cousin it would be like having Sirius back in a small way.
So yeah. I don't know what my point was and I'm sure I didn't make it.