All I know is that if I were both 17 and the World’s Most Powerful Wizard, I’d damn well be fucking somebody with that combo of hormones and magic mojo.
Hence, Harry Potter is clearly ASEXUAL.
I didn’t read it as calling him gay. Daffyd thinks he’s special because he’s ‘the only gay in the village’; only he isn’t. So the Rev. was saying that Harry Potter isn’t the only wizard in town.
Larry Mudd: That’s one of the more annoying characters.
To be fair, he’s hardly the World’s MostPowerful Wizard. World’s Luckiest Wizard is more like it.
He does have that scar, though. Don’t chicks dig scars?
He can levitate things, for crying out loud. He can fly. But he can’t fuck? Come on. Oysters, snails, I don’t care, the boy should be porking somebody by now if he had the slightest interest.
OK, that made me laugh. But only because I have a lot of british friends.
Yes, like I said, I agree with Amok’s post. It’s just that the way the Rev. phrased it, it sounded like he was saying, “Harry’s a homo.”
You’ve made a bit of an arse of yourself, haven’t you, CynicalGabe? Such a shame you don’t get to wave around the homophobic-preacher banner this time.
Twit.
Also, Harry is about 17 years old by the end of the current book. That’s not exactly pre-pubescent even in England, yanno.
Twit[sup]3[/sup].
This is your cue to post again and say “Oops. I was wrong. Silly me.” :rolleyes:
::crickets::
Why is it that preachers can always see homoerotic subtexts in children’s books while the rest of us can’t? 
You must have been mising a gene from your DNA.
This would be exactly my take on it too. I think the Rev was using the phrase figuratively and humorously and the teachers, like said got totally whooshed. I’m happy to say that this is one time where I think an accusation of homophobia against a clergyman is completely unwarranted. I’m also betting that the kids understood him just fine and that teachers were the only ones who didn’t get it.
Reuters has now retracted the story. It seems not even the teachers objected to the Little Britain allusion:
Ha! Brilliant!
Johnny, I think my favourite Little Britain characters are all the annoying characters played by Matt Lucas. Vicki Pollard, Daffyd, the Stage Hypnotist, the Fat Fighters lady, the faux paraplegic – all excruciatingly annoying characters. Funny as hell, though. 
I don’t really know (at least from the CNN article) enough of what he said to be sure that he made it at all clear that he wasn’t implying that Harry was gay. I believe his explicit after the fact statements that that’s not what he meant. Without seeing more of the text of his remarks, though, I’m not willing to judge the teachers as wooshed. Also, we have this:
If the kids got worked up before the teachers reacted, then they got wooshed as well and stopping the talk may have been warranted. We don’t really know how the kids were reacting. The staff may have been oversensitive – on the otherhand their remarks may be a good reflection of what the students thought the guy was saying. Little Britain has been very popular in the UK – the teachers were about as likely to pick up on the allusion as the kids were.
…and here is the BBC story. No mention of Harry at all.
Why do I think this fella could have grown into Father Jack (of Father Ted) if he didn’t get published?
“Bum! Crap! Ass! Pee! Fart! Bogey! Poo! Feck! Drink!”
Well now it sounds like he probably just set the little buggers giggling at a series of mildy scatological references and the teachers stepped in just to put an end to the Beavis and Butt-Head effect. (huh huh huh…he said “fart”). It sounds like the guy was just trying to be entertaining and humorous but maybe forgot just how immature 12 year old boys can be about that stuff. If we had a speaker at school saying “pee” and “crap” when I was 12, we wouldn’t have stopped snickering for a week.
I adore Lou and Andy - Andy CRACKS our shit up. After the first season of Little Britain, our new catchphrase was “I don’t like red.” No one ever gets my and ElzaHub’s Little Britain obsession. And I cringe at the ‘bitty’ sketches.
Daffyd’s a riot. And I’m sorry, the Rev. has high points for that reference from me.
E.
Gay, wizard, what could add to the horror? Ah, democrat.
I hate Little Britain.
You may now continue with your… whatever this has turned into.
Daffyd is my favorite Little Britain character. But then, he’s the only one I found the least bit funny.
Presumably, at that point, the reporter started nudging the cameraman and snickering?
Margaret, Margaret…
Yes?
Oops. I was wrong. Silly me.
I guess I’ll go wave that banner at Falwell some more.