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elizabeth  ·  1658 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The wonderful, weird world of wizard rock

A thing a have noticed about Harry Potter fandoms, is that there's a disproportionate amount of queer folks that are really into it. The book never once mentions anything LGBT related. It's not like the wizzarding world is super accepting of anything out of the "norm" either. They're all about traditions and old ways of doing things, so I don't know how positive their stance on gay peeps would be anyway.

Maybe it's just the escapism of another world beyond ours that is the appeal? Why it resonates so strongly to a specific niche of people is a bit of a mystery to me.