Is harry potter gay

Penske Business Media, LLC, 12 Sept. Fans spent nine years lamenting the end of the books and five years without seeing a major film adaptation. Here Media, Inc., 18 Dec. 2014. In the final scene involving the two boys, Scorpius recounts his failed attempt to ask Rose Granger-Weasley on a date, proclaiming, “I planted the acorn. Whereas Rowling reserves themes of sexuality, gender and race to subtext, Rowell gives them equal narrative attention, apprising the reader of the possibilities inherent in Rowling’s Wizarding World.

Carry On is a young-adult bestseller with explicit moments of queer sexuality, so why has the threat of moral panic not been nearly as troubling for Rowell?

Many wish the characters actually identified as gay in the books and movies Rowling created, not just in her mind.

"The thing that bothers me most about Rowling going into the 'intense sexual relationship' of Dumbledore and Grindewald is that after being criticized for glossing over queer characters except in interviews, she reduced calls for real queer rep to 'give us kinky sex details!'" one fan tweeted.

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He expresses this concern to his boyfriend Baz: “I can’t keep up with you. “LGBT Students at Hogwarts? He had—it’s very clear in the book…I think a child will see a friendship and a sensitive adult may well understand that it was an infatuation”.^xix As the author of Harry Potter, it is easy to take Rowling’s words as fact. She defines slash fanfiction as “concerning a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of the same gender”.^liii Per Harry Potter, popular pairings are Harry/Draco, Seamus/Dean, Remus/Sirius, and Ginny/Cho.

Fanfiction for instance proves a great source for fans wanting to return to Rowling’s world. Print.

Tosenberger, Catherine. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. 105-121doi:10.1111/jasp.12279. With the significant lack of asexual and aromantic characters in popular culture, Charlie Weasley's being asexual in canon would have been a game-changer.

Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy

Albus Potter, the younger son of Harry Potter, is the main character in the spin-off theater production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

While Draco and Harry have often been embraced in fanfiction as a gay couple, Albus and Scorpius act much more like a couple on the stage than their father's ever did.

Yet this only stresses the importance of the potential of Rowling’s work. Rowell creates a queer utopia, where individual traits like race, gender, sexuality, and magical ability can all coexist in one narrative world equally. Much of this revival comes from new, canonical texts, such as the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and noncanonical, as with Rainbow Rowell’s satire of Rowling’s series and its influence, Carry On.

This ‘Potter Renaissance’ I describe takes place only after Western nations have made strides in the promotion of LGBTQIA rights.

We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment.”

Amidst the controversy, it was also brought to light that Rowling’s famous pseudonym “Robert Galbraith,” (her Twitter bio outright states, “Writer sometimes known as Robert Galbraith”) is also the name of the psychiatrist who pioneered gay conversion therapy.

Since her June 10 statement, Rowling has gone back to tweeting fan art for her books, stopping the conversation until her next inevitable mishap.