I'm completely with you on that. I saw, I think on Tumblr, that someone's head canon was that Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas were a couple, and so that's totally my head canon now too. I'm sure Rowling is LGBT positive, but it definitely would have been nice for kids and readers of all orientations and genders to see a bit more variety of representation in such a culturally important text. Beyond the assertion after it was all over that Dumbledore was gay. Because by the point Goblet of Fire came out, she must have been writing her own ticket and she would have been able to withstand any objections about canonically queer characters in the books.

I'm pretty sure Ros will be fine. We're pretty LGBT-positive in our house, her school is supportive (there are a number of families with same sex parents, and plenty of LGBT supportive posters all over the place), and Ros' favourite neighbours are the two gay blokes who live next to us. But representation is not an insignificant thing.

I'm sooo relieved she got into Potter before the trip. She was extremely bitter in January to find out we hadn't gone to the Harry Potter park when we were in Florida last year, and the argument "but Ros, you didn't *like* Harry Potter last year" just wasn't cutting it. ;-)