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Hogwarts Is Rife With Homosexual Tension

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(Newser) – No fancy divining necessary: Anyone with decent gaydar can see that new Harry Potter movie is awash in homoeroticism, Natasha Vargas-Cooper writes on Gawker. Hogwarts is seething with hormones in the Half-Blood Prince, she notes, but with the idea of "loose lady wizards" a no-no, most of the flirtation and innuendo stays between the boys. "In the tradition of British boarding schools, things got a little gay." 

Things get especially hot, she says, between Harry and Ron, whose "supposed crush on Hermione is as lustful as nursing home bingo game." Hogwarts' male teachers and schoolboys also seem touchy-feely with each other, she notes, even before you get to the riding of phallic broomsticks and blatantly gay Dumbledore's having "a literal flaming box of secrets in his closet!" "I also think Radcliffe is gay as all get out!" she adds. "There, I said it."

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Daniel Radcliffe is Harry Potter in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."   (MovieWeb)
"Dumbledore, with his feminine affectation is such an obvious old queen," Vargas-Cooper writes.   (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Jaap Buitendjik)
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Hogwarts is a hormonal hothouse! Wizards are snogging in the halls, winking at each other during Potions class, and they're even abusing their powers to seduce other supple wizards. - Natasha Vargas-Cooper

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riffran
Jul 18, 09 8:43 AM CDT
good greif......sounds like the author has a few issues to work out also....utter nonesense...remember the big stupidity storm over Prince;s shadow while playing his guitar at some awards ceremony.......and then the stupid "sponge bob gay pants" thing.......it's nothing more than a drumhead witch hunt for some publicity Reply
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GTORick
Jul 18, 09 9:49 AM CDT
Complete and utter nosense? Nice way to dismiss somehing oiut of hand. Instead of distracting the thread b brinig in irelvant side topics cold you perhaps support your argument with examples? You do know that the author JK Rowling has in fact said a couple of those characters are in fact gay.Please check your facts before giving out falsely based opinions.
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keybored
Jul 18, 09 9:57 AM CDT
@GTORick -- before you get your panties in a bunch, there's a HUGE difference between "a couple of gays characters" (as you mention) and "awash in homoeroticism" as the Gawker people portray it. And as far as giving examples (I'm a huge fan of that BTW) how would they above poster give examples to disprove the abundance of gayness suggested by the Gawker author?
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kokuaguy
Jul 18, 09 12:04 PM CDT
Examples??? Ex-schmamples !!! Us newsies don't need no steenkin' examples !!!!!!
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keybored
Jul 18, 09 8:44 AM CDT
These people have too much time on their hands... or perhaps they're closet homophobes. Reply
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