I was discussing with a friend today the decision by Stephenie Meyer to reissue Twilight with the genders reversed. Rather than a story about a teenage girl being romanced by a 100 year old male vampire, it will be a story about a teenage boy being romanced by a 100 year old female vampire.
My first thought was “Gee, if they reverse the genders in Harry Potter, wouldn’t Dumbledore be a lesbian?”
But then I continued the chain of thought. What if J.K. Rowling were to issue a gender reversed Harry Potter? It would be a story of a teenage girl, born to greatness but at first unaware of her true potential, who is looked over by a kindly magical female guardian, while an evil older woman — the young girl’s nemesis — tries to destroy her and take her power.
And that’s when I realized that Harry Potter does not need to be gender reversed. It’s already a gender reversed Walt Disney princess movie!