Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a gay love story

Contents:

• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS A GAY LOVE STORY, DON'T @ ME
• HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE
• HARRY POTTER FANS ARE ANGRY AT THE LACK OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN SRPI AND ALB CURSED CHILD
• THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N'T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT'S A PROBLEM.
• THE GAY ROMANCE IN THE CURSED CHILD: A LETTER TO JK ROWLG

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY

However, Alb and Srpi' close iendship upsets both of their MORE: Harry Potter director wants to make a Cursed Child movie wh the origal stIs Alb Seves Potter gay? Every time a csh on a girl is allud to, feels like JK Rowlg is shoutg “no homo!

Which is a shame given that Rowlg was so keen to pot out that Dumbledore is gay after publishg seven novels whout even the fatt whiff of homosexualy. Even the Fantastic Beasts film seri – which featur Dumbledore nflict wh a man that Rowlg says he was love wh – Rowlg avoids makg the character “explicly gay”.

We’re not entirely sure what “explicly gay” means.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS A GAY LOVE STORY, DON'T @ ME

Queerbag is a term that exists mostly fan muni, and refers to the wrers or creators of a world (whether of a movie anchise, a book seri, or a TV show) g jectns of homoeroticism and romance to draw an dience seekg LGBTQ reprentatn, while not alienatg a wir dience who may not want to see a gay relatnship picted. ”) a manner remblg the mon trope “Hot Gay Huggg”: a hilar tle for the ls-than-funny absence of sual timacy allowed between homosexual characters. Hetero upl get to kiss, the gays are limed to a (hot gay) hug.

Sce Rowlg outed Alb Dumbledore as a gay man – retrospectively, once the books were fished and the character ad – rears have been impatient to see a gay character troduced Harry Potter’s Srb got well ahead of the Cursed Child: there is a rnupia of Srb fan fictn onle, wh some stori datg back to years before the play was even announced. “The wrers of the Cursed Child tentnally clud this fan theory to draw , but cid to change jt enough so that they wouldn’t have to adm that they ma two 11-year-olds gay, ” Jamon Ortiz, an LGBTQ mpaigner and Harry Potter fan, told me.

“It’s queerbag bee they knew exactly who they were reelg and why, but still cid to leave out the ma attractn for all the fans they hooked, choosg stead, like so many others, to set up the gay romance, ht at nstantly, make believable and ep and perfect, and then force out of the story.

HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE

”Put asi sexualy for jt one moment – regardls of whether you are gay or not, is extremely important to see portrayals of ep, emotnal, non-sexual romantic male iendships popular culture. Any emotnal or physil closens is bshed away as “gay” a pejorative sense. This isn’t to say that queerbag isn’t real – but there’s a reason why we see closens between men as almost trsilly gay.

Srpi Malfoy velops a close iendship wh Alb Seves Potter (Picture: Pottermore)The wrers of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child have been acced of ‘queerbag’ over a potential gay romance between Alb Seves Potter and Srpi Malfoy. Queerbag is a term which refers to how thors attempt to attract an LGBTQ dience whout explicly nsummatg a gay relatnship.

HARRY POTTER FANS ARE ANGRY AT THE LACK OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN SRPI AND ALB CURSED CHILD

Jamon Ortiz, a fan and LGBTQ mpaigner, told The Guardian: ‘The wrers of the Cursed Child tentnally clud this fan theory to draw , but cid to change jt enough so that they wouldn’t have to adm that they ma two 11-year-olds gay. ‘Instead [they], like so many others, …set up the gay romance, ht at nstantly, make believable and ep and perfect, and then force out of the story. But should be noted that jt bee their relatnship isn’t a fully fledged romance yet, don’t mean they uld be nfirmed as gay characters the future.

Rowlg revealed Dumbledore was gay 2007 after the last book was published.

THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N'T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT'S A PROBLEM.

Rowlg sually tossed off one of the biggt announcements the history of her landmark fantasy phenomenon: Dumbledore, Harry’s mentor and the greatt wizard the world until his dramatic ath book six, was gay. The iendship between Harry’s son, Alb, and Dra Malfoy’s son, Srpi, the play has drawn much media mentary that’s mced few words cricizg the way the script spends s time buildg evince for a nonilly queer relatnship between the two boys, only to btally yank away at the end wh a flimsy "No Homo" exce. Those books, which are wrten for adults, all nta diverse sts and sthg social mentary on everythg om class issu to homelsns and homophobia.

Even more bafflg on the subject of queer inty is that a 2007 terview, Rowlg herself ma clear she don’t thk ’s a major issue to be gay the wizardg world:. So I thk you uld be gay, pureblood, and totally whout any kd of cricism om the Luci Malfoys of the world.

THE GAY ROMANCE IN THE CURSED CHILD: A LETTER TO JK ROWLG

Aga and aga, the poorly wrten women of the play are ed as shamels props for the giant, flashg "NO HOMO! By self, this is a troublg versn of the "wear the girl down" trope; upled wh the play’s homoerotic subtext, ’s a tra wreck.

In short, they have none of the specific homoerotic hallmarks of Alb and Srpi’s relatnship.