Re: Art Stopped Short

SPT wrote:

3. Making Dumbledore gay violates the basic premise of allegorical
fantasy. Gays are inherently associated with an underground
counterculture. And unfortunately there already is an underground
counterculture in Harry Potter---- the Wizarding World. Gays, like all
those tinged with "Other-ness", all those people whom Vernon Dursley
would classify as "weirdos", are already included in the Wizarding
World at an allegorical level.

What about all the other overt examples of members of minority groups that have their own "underground counterculture" in modern british society? We have black people (Lee Jordan), british aisans (the Patil sisters), Irish people (Seamus Finnegan). Placing gay people in a category above and beyond these "real world" minority cultures as something to break the illusion and destroy the allegory sais more about your prejudice than it does about JKR's art.

Robin
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