Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay

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  • Posted By: www.pafundi.com @ 10/20/2007 6:47:30 AM

    Now the religious right will really hate the Harry Potterr books, try to get them out of the school and public libaries. My God, a gay wizzard!

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  • Posted By: www.pafundi.com @ 10/20/2007 6:45:49 AM

    Well now the religious right will really hate her Harry Potter books. Schools will ban them and the churches will try to have them removed from public libaries.

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  • Posted By: USNA Ancient @ 10/20/2007 3:51:01 AM

    Good for Rowling ... she continues to expand the minds of the young ! If you think the far right wing-nut evangelicals were pissed about the wizardry ...

  • Posted By: USNA Ancient @ 10/20/2007 3:47:43 AM

    and you thought the far right wing-nut evangelicals were pissed off about wizardry !

  • Posted By: descrime @ 10/20/2007 3:42:12 AM

    Sorry, it was "counter criticisms that her books are[n't] progressive"

  • Posted By: descrime @ 10/20/2007 3:39:48 AM

    Rowling only has control over what's in the books. If she wanted Dumbledore to be gay, she should have put it in the novel with all the other revelations. What is the point of writing a book if you don't let it speak for itself? That this revelation comes out now makes it seem more like she's trying to counter criticisms that her books are progressive by putting the shiny "gay" button on one of her characters. Notice, however, that she made Dumbledore gay: the one character who is so old that he's completely nonsexual to the reader. If she really wanted to be "progressive", why couldn't Sirius or Remus or Seamus or Dean have been gay? These are the characters that readers relate to, and it would have actually meant something if she had made one or more of them gay in the books. In twenty years, no one will remember this interview and all the characters will go back to being straight. This is just a stunt to try to increase publicity/popularity for the remaining movies and continue to drive book sales.

  • Posted By: Pagan_Soul_08 @ 10/20/2007 3:02:36 AM

    To you, oh Holy One, I have but one thing to say: Spout your religious dogmas and filth elsewhere you worthless sack of crap. I, for one, have amazing respect for Rowling because she can and did think to that depth in developing her character. Also, look at what she has done with the books! More people are reading, and some parents have even used the series to teach their children to read! So, she has rightfully earned my respect.

  • Posted By: Pagan_Soul_08 @ 10/20/2007 3:02:29 AM

    To you, oh Holy One, I have but one thing to say: Spout your religious dogmas and filth elsewhere you worthless sack of crap. I, for one, have amazing respect for Rowling because she can and did think to that depth in developing her character. Also, look at what she has done with the books! More people are reading, and some parents have even used the series to teach their children to read! So, she has rightfully earned my respect.

  • Posted By: cfleig@gty.org @ 10/20/2007 2:25:23 AM

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  • Posted By: DonL @ 10/20/2007 1:56:37 AM

    Re Keith Brown. Another death eater unmasked.

  • Posted By: RowlingFan @ 10/19/2007 11:46:34 PM

    I wonder what percentage of Rowling's readers are having such extreme reactions as keithbrown? Didn't most of the fundamentalist Christians eschew the Harry Potter series for its so-called promotion of the so-called demonic practices of "witchcraft"? Surely most readers who understood Harry's message wouldn't judge the book any differently now knowing some new detail: one not even worthy of the author's mention of it once before across a vast and already-extensively detailed multi-volume epic.

    Since the original story includes Rowling also sharing how she sees the banning of her books as a compliment -- "...if you look at which other authors are on that list. In a way it's great advertising." -- it seems that jwilkins is correct: the irony here is just getting thicker.

    • Posted By: RowlingFan @ 10/20/2007 12:17:02 AM

      Sorry, I misspoke: Surely *any* readers who understood Harry's message wouldn't judge the book differently now. Other news coverage of this story has quoted Rowling saying that she considered the books a "prolonged argument for tolerance."

  • Posted By: t.w.miracle @ 10/19/2007 11:38:36 PM

    albus/gellert slash, here we come! [and "unrequited" my ***. now we all know why neither of them died when they dueled (either when arianna died, or when albus won the elder wand from grindelwald and got him locked in prison), and why gellert didn't betray albus to voldemort.]

  • Posted By: A.C. Katt @ 10/19/2007 11:28:36 PM

    Dumbledore is gay...hooray. There's one for the rest of us who really don't care who you love, just that you do.

  • Posted By: A.C. Katt @ 10/19/2007 11:27:21 PM

    There's one for the rest of us who really don't care who you love, just that you do.

  • Posted By: Klancy51 @ 10/19/2007 11:12:39 PM

    keith brown is stupid.

  • Posted By: ARChick @ 10/19/2007 11:08:41 PM

    Neville, meek and hapless? Come on, he kicked ass in Deathly Hollows!

    And three cheers for D/G!

  • Posted By: annarussiano @ 10/19/2007 11:08:34 PM

    keithbrown: You are a disgusting excuse for a human being. I hope you choke and die, you vile piece of scum.

  • Posted By: keithbrown @ 10/19/2007 10:51:19 PM

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