Considering her 1950's epilogue ending (teen marriage/babyfactories is the life to aspire), she is decidedly less liberal than I ever considered her in the past. What I liked about H/Hr is that despite Harry's hero-status as leading character, he had a heroine by his side who is smart and happy to show it, who can take care of herself magically, who can deal with Harry's fame and is caught up in his life but still manages to be her own person. Where Ron's mocked her booksmarts, Harry's always had nothing but respect for her intelligence. I never envisioned H/Hr to be about marriage or children (like OBHWF is), but a relationship which represented equal partnership where both improve the other's qualities, temper the other's fallacies, and solve/save the plot.
I should get off this soapbox.
pushing the 'preaching tolerance' wheelbarrow.
Yeah, if people were really accepting, then what is the big deal? It's just a shame that this world in these days still needs preaching where it comes to tolerance. But, by definition there's nothing wrong with JKR saying a character is gay to promote awareness that homosexuality exists and is normal, it's just that she deliberately left it out of her books to keep those "safe from controversy" that's chafing me. If homosexuality is too controversial for your books whereas heterosexuality is fine to mention, then really you're not very accepting at all, children's books or not, because homosexuality is normal, not controversial.
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:31 am (UTC)Considering her 1950's epilogue ending (teen marriage/babyfactories is the life to aspire), she is decidedly less liberal than I ever considered her in the past. What I liked about H/Hr is that despite Harry's hero-status as leading character, he had a heroine by his side who is smart and happy to show it, who can take care of herself magically, who can deal with Harry's fame and is caught up in his life but still manages to be her own person. Where Ron's mocked her booksmarts, Harry's always had nothing but respect for her intelligence. I never envisioned H/Hr to be about marriage or children (like OBHWF is), but a relationship which represented equal partnership where both improve the other's qualities, temper the other's fallacies, and solve/save the plot.
I should get off this soapbox.
pushing the 'preaching tolerance' wheelbarrow.
Yeah, if people were really accepting, then what is the big deal? It's just a shame that this world in these days still needs preaching where it comes to tolerance. But, by definition there's nothing wrong with JKR saying a character is gay to promote awareness that homosexuality exists and is normal, it's just that she deliberately left it out of her books to keep those "safe from controversy" that's chafing me. If homosexuality is too controversial for your books whereas heterosexuality is fine to mention, then really you're not very accepting at all, children's books or not, because homosexuality is normal, not controversial.