... which turned into a rambly thinky post about Dumblequeer and gay Mandalorians.

[were_lemur]

Finally read parts of Sacrifice (the parts that DIDN'T have to do with the BIG SPOILERY THING that I refuse to admit happened, kthnx). Let's just say ... my curiosity about the whole Gay Mandalorian thing finally got to me.

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[were_lemur]

I've been trying to figure out how she would have dropped a reference in casually; KT had the advantage, there, of NOT writing mostly from the POV of a seventeen year old boy.

The only way I think the information could have been integrated, would be to put it in Rita Skeeter's bio. But that was such a hit piece that Harry would have almost certainly had to have engaged with the accusation, one way or another. Which would have made it a plot point, not a casual reference.

Personally, I would've preferred a casual mention of a living gay couple. Maybe in the otherwise-useless epilogue? Maybe (totally picking names at random here) Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil or Colin Creevy and Blaize Zabini bringing their kid to go off on the Hogwarts Express, just like everyone else?

*shrugs*

Though maybe if there'd been that counterpoint -- a happy happens-to-be-gay couple shown as raising a family like everyone else -- then the eleventh-hour reveal of Dumblequeer wouldn't have stuck in my throat so much. This way it's making the only queer character dead and lonely, the only same-sex relationship (requeited or not) one of disfunction and badness, and the only mention of gayness at all tacked on as post-publication revelation.

[pet_lunatic]

I agree completely!