An upsetting thought about the new HP
Jul. 18th, 2005 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdThis talks about a minor character and his story, and lycanthropy as a metaphor for gayness.
Throughout PoA and the other books, Lupin's lycanthropy can be read as a code for him being gay. I won't belabor the point. It's there to the point my 13, who is just starting to get subtext, can see it.
Now, we are introduced to the werewolf that bit (read: molested) Lupin when he was a child. We're told he prefers children so he can poison their minds against the wizarding world that casts them out.
If this isn't code for pedophilia, and the ugly notion that gays recruit children, I don't know what is.
We're told the wizarding society is so lycan-phobic it would send its children to live with werewolves rather than raise them, even with wolfsbane potion. We're told that werewolves are against civilization and actively working to destroy it.
And we're shown that the love of a good woman (Tonks, Fleur) can fixthe gay lycanthropes and make them civilized. (OK, Bill probably won't transform, but I bet he'll go all wolfish)
I'm disturbed and starting to get pissed off. I'll see what Bunny thinks after she reads it, without saying anything about my ideas to her.
Throughout PoA and the other books, Lupin's lycanthropy can be read as a code for him being gay. I won't belabor the point. It's there to the point my 13, who is just starting to get subtext, can see it.
Now, we are introduced to the werewolf that bit (read: molested) Lupin when he was a child. We're told he prefers children so he can poison their minds against the wizarding world that casts them out.
If this isn't code for pedophilia, and the ugly notion that gays recruit children, I don't know what is.
We're told the wizarding society is so lycan-phobic it would send its children to live with werewolves rather than raise them, even with wolfsbane potion. We're told that werewolves are against civilization and actively working to destroy it.
And we're shown that the love of a good woman (Tonks, Fleur) can fix
I'm disturbed and starting to get pissed off. I'll see what Bunny thinks after she reads it, without saying anything about my ideas to her.
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Date: 2005-07-19 04:06 am (UTC)But I do see your point, Val. (Or what is the short version of your name?) I hadn't quite thought about it that far.
On the other hand, Tonks's love does not change the fact that Remus is a werewolf. And he has always been shown as pretty civilized on his own.
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Date: 2005-08-07 02:48 am (UTC)I answer to Val.
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Date: 2005-08-07 03:32 am (UTC)