In which I help you with cover tips, writing tips, rant about Sirius Black (Better known as my husband) and make Banana Pancakes to help everyone get through 2018.
I feel like this topic was never really covered like AT ALL in Harry Potter but I always found it interesting.
Anyway, I like to think that the Wizarding World was generally a lot more evolved in terms of attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ society, most focusing on blood and species supremacy. In my headcanon, the purebloods and muggleborns are kind of opposites in a way. Whilst the Muggleborns will often have a lot of prejudices regarding LGBT issues, they really couldn't give less of a fuck about blood supremacy and species and vice versa, simply because of how they were raised. Like in a world where the importance of purebloods and being human (as opposed to werewolves and stuff), I feel like those are the things that would be of the most pressing importance to the Wizarding society.
But obviously, there would still be issues, especially in Marauder's Era and even Golden Era to an extent as it would be impossible for them not to merge cultures somewhat. Even if the Purebloods were completely disconnected up until 11, they would interact with these people who had these views.
Like it's crazy to think how different things were even five years ago when I was thirteen/fourteen-ish, there has been such a big shift. Everyone literally just used the word 'gay' as a bad thing, like I literally remember it just being one of those things that we didn't even question. Up until I was about fifteen, me and most of my school believed there were two genders, you were either gay, straight and maybe bi and we were mortified that people thought of our school as 'the Lesbian school' as it was all girls. I literally thought that all gay men were 'fabulous' and flamboyant even though I HAD A FUCKING BI DAD WHO WASN'T and girls at my school, still saw gay men as trophies to collect in a way in the form of a 'sassy gay friend'.
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The weirdest part is, I can analyse it now and see how awful it was but at the time, I literally couldn't have if I tried because I simply didn't even see any of it as homophobia or how it was affecting other people, it was so deeply ingrained as the 'norm'. My Dad is Bi, my parents were always really accepting but this mass attitudes that I encountered at school every day had such a deep effect on me, that even now, I sometimes find it hard to keep up, like these attitudes stick with you even if you hate it. It would have impossible for the wizarding world to have entirely escaped homophobia as much as I want to believe it.
Anyway, back on topic ... if there ever really was one.
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Marauder's Era
(I say this all the time, but I am not an expert on this, there is so much more to go on, this is a VERY brief summary)
Like back in the 1970s, Marauder's Era, stuff like asexuality was literally not recognised, it wasn't until the 90s really, the first online asexual community was started in 1997, before it was just not even a thing people considered. Like literally, it was in 1972, Sweden became the first country to allow Transgender people to legally change their gender, things were so fucking backwards it was insane.
Homosexual sex was literally illegal in all the American States other than Illinois, which removed sodomy laws in 1962, but the next state to reverse the laws only did so in 1971, nine years later. In England it was 1967 and in Scotland, where Hogwarts is, it was 1970, like it's just insane.
It was only in 1973, when homosexuality was removed from the list of mental disorders, and even then many people were still being sent to conversion therapy, like fuck even now people are being sent there. Awful things were happening like the Trash Bag Murderer who would explicitly target gay men. Sex Ed was close to nothing, which along with homophobia and apathy was one of the reasons to blame for the A.I.Ds epidemic of the 1980s.
Of course, attitudes were changing but it takes a whole generation sometimes to truly begin to erase views and even then people will insist on clinging on to backwards views.
My Dad, was closeted gay during that period and he said that he simply didn't know it was an option until he was like 18 or so, simply believing it was nothing, like things were so fucking hard back then. My Step-Dad, who is very straight, said that gay was considered one of the biggest insults, stereotypes of gay people were awful and even now, he still makes jokes about it sometimes, all these years later.
So like with Wolfstar and things, although in TIWTG, I only briefly touched upon it (I am building up to an actual Wolfstar book someday, I swear, but I want to do it right), unless it is an AU, there would be a shit tonne of awful stuff coming their way. People still saw it as wrong or immoral, homophobia was absolutely brutal, like as much as I love the Marauders, without realising it they would probably still have attitudes like that.
In my headcanons, James although he loves his friends and saw nothing wrong in theory, he still felt discomfort at the idea. Like he would
I always saw Lily as trying to be quite accepting and supportive but Petunia wouldn't have been from what we can see and that would be bound to have an impact, even if she tried to be as liberal as possible. Like she would try and get rid of her prejudices, but they would be deep instilled in her even as she fought to remove them.
As for Peter, I always imagined him being asexual and considering himself as 'broken', trying to force himself to enjoy and want to have sex with people, thinking that once he 'found the right person', he'd be 'fixed' or simply considering himself a 'late bloomer'.
I always HC both Remus and Sirius as bisexual and I always kind of change around on the differences between how I think they'd react. With Sirius, I feel like he would have been a lot more open than Remus and by that I mean, confiding in his closest friends. Sirius had a more rebellious spark to him so would have been marginally more accepting of it but even he would still sometimes get a slight flicker that maybe those people were right and he should just ignore it.
As for Remus, I've started to imagine that he would simply try and suppress it, if he thought Sirius or someone was attractive, he would simply just try and dismiss it, believing it was just morally wrong to the point where he felt disgusting for feeling anything. If Sirius came out to him, he might even try and dismiss it too, simply because that's what he knew and had been taught.
And Snape? Well, I choose not to think about Snape much at all if I have to.
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Anyway, these are just my views and headcanons on the topic which I felt like sharing and hope to cover more at some points. Also I finally bou - E x
