Dear Fandom, I love you, but really!

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JKR is not obsessed with heteronormality. If she was obsessed, she would have smacked down the slashers as badly as she smacked down the Harmonians. All she did was show us three characters who got married and had kids. She showed us, through Harry's point of view, a happy ending for Harry, Harry's best friends, and Harry's enemy. Maybe she didn't focus on what their careers are, but that wasn't the happy ending for Harry. Never was! Do you not remember what his desire was in the Mirror of Erised? A family.

Look, I'm not saying that you have to be straight or have kids to be happy. Far from it. I'm just saying that JKR infused the themes of family=happiness from the very beginning. Having a family is what is important to Harry - remember his smack-down to Lupin? Why are you surprised? Why are you hurt?

Maybe JKR should have included a gay character at the end. It would have been nice to have that role model for kids. But that wasn't her point. The themes of the series are that people can change, family is important, and do your best to do good.

It would have been nice if she could have thrown on a huge coda where she exemplifies the virtues of children - but only if you want children, and marriage - gay and straight both, and having a good career - but only if you want one, staying at home is nice too! But she didn't. She wrote what was important to her. What was important to Harry - which wasn't a career. It was surviving, having a family, being happy, having friends. It would have been nice if she had done more. But why is what she did so wrong?

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* I know Harry did kiss Cho, but she wasn't his first girlfriend, considering he was 15 and they didn't even go out really, or ever make out regularly.