Thank you for the priviledge of making your head explode. I hope the brain wasn't too badly damaged.

Yes, HP fandom is a terribly warping experience, isn't it? To the credit of the Holmes fandom (discredit?) Rex Stout presented his essay "Watson was a Woman" to a BSI gathering in 1941 -- so the gender-bending begain before J.K. Rowling was even born!