Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay

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  • Posted By: dontmesswithsimone @ 11/21/2007 12:09:15 AM

    Look, goblewoble, my grandfathers gay, and that doesn't change him one bit he's just as awesome as he was when he was with a woman.
    eat *** goblewoble.

  • Posted By: goblewoble @ 11/19/2007 5:58:22 AM

    excuse me yaoliver but of course it maters that dumbledore is gay? just think, the most powerfull wizard ever is gay? hes a poof? what the hell!! it just ruins it dont you think

    • Posted By: jackieistypin @ 11/19/2007 6:07:27 PM

      wow. goblewoble youre disgusting

  • Posted By: The Holy One @ 10/20/2007 2:09:45 AM

    Thanks a lot Rowling, I'm gonna go light the local bookstore on fire to cleanse it of Satan's stench. Being gay should be a crime and is an instant ticket to hell. I hope all of you gay sympathizers end up in hell too, supporting the Devil is one of the biggest sins (besides being gay) ever.

    • Posted By: yaoilover @ 11/19/2007 12:39:29 AM

      You know what, maybe you need to go to hell. Never in my life have a read something like this. There is nothing wrong with being gay, and I don't really care what the bible says. Also remember the bible saying something 'treat others the way you would want to be treated, and not to judge people" For all of those who are gay, luv ya people, and don't let others push down with there stupid disgusting words.

    • Posted By: the_ange @ 10/20/2007 3:22:55 AM

      You know. It's people like you that give others the perception that Christians are nothing but hicks that carry torches and pitchforks. I'm sorry, but if you wish for someone to go to hell, then you're just as guilty as any other sinner. The Bible says that no sin is greater than another. And also...burning down a bookstore isn't the smartest thing to do. After all, that would be vandalism, and in a way vandalism is stealing. You're just broken a commandment right there.

      • Posted By: I Help Make Magic @ 10/28/2007 10:52:28 PM

        Actually, it would be ARSON.

        • Posted By: *giggle* @ 10/29/2007 1:54:34 PM

          Yes, and aren't all the colorful flames pretty?! On the same note, I cannot suffer a book burner to live!!!! (a life with books as they should be taken away lest said person defiles them by bending pages or marking in the margins).

      • Posted By: Wacko Cultist @ 10/22/2007 10:33:17 AM

        Do you really think that "The Holy One" is a real Christian? It is quite obvious from the ridiculous nature of his (her?) comments that this is a person who is posing just to rile people up. Whoever "the Holy One" is, he wants to give others the perceptions of Christians like you just wrote. That's one of the drawback of anonymity on the net - you can pose as anyone to slander them. Like, I am not a Muslim fundamentalist - I am a white midwesterner - but what if I commented: "Allah will cast down Western civilization in judgment of this perversion of his laws. Your cities will burn . . . "

        • Posted By: superjer @ 10/22/2007 6:56:35 PM

          The problem is that there really ARE people who say these things and really mean it. I know several of them. Whether The Holy One is real or not, he represents something very real.

        • Posted By: superjer @ 10/22/2007 6:55:26 PM

          The problem is there ARE people that say the exact same things and really mean it. I know several of them. Whether Holy One is real or not, he represents something very real.

    • Posted By: *giggle* @ 10/29/2007 1:49:06 PM

      You amuse me. How can you compare supporting an alternate sexuality and something like mass genocide is beyond me. I can understand you not liking it, but posting such damning comments in such a harsh and ignorant way takes away from your credibility and highlights the intolerance of man. This is the type of thing that perpetuates hate in the world and it seems to me to be just another way of allowing Satan to win by taking hold of our heart.

    • Posted By: maggiecat65 @ 10/20/2007 2:46:19 PM

      What is that old saying? Me thinks thou dost protest too much. Are your Gay tendencies starting to come to the surface? It is only a book people, would you ban some of the great literature of the world, just because you didn't agree with it? Again, Me thinks thou dost protest too much! !.

    • Posted By: maggiecat65 @ 10/20/2007 2:38:10 PM

      I have heard that people who protest too much are only hiding their own gay tendencies, so put that in your pipe and smoke it. Satan must be right on your shoulder.

  • Posted By: yaoilover @ 11/19/2007 12:25:21 AM

    So what if Dumbledore is gay! There's nothing wrong with gays. What's you problem Goblewoble? People like you disgust me. It's also cause people like, the world is being corrupeted, and others are scared of coming out. The world is much better place when people STOP judging other people. So a guy perfers a guy instead of girl, they can't help it. Someone should kick you in the ***.

  • Posted By: goblewoble @ 11/18/2007 2:16:44 AM

    dumbledore is gay!!! omg what a looser why did jk have to say that it makes things so much worse DUMBLEDORES GAY WTF???? ive lost respect for him now

  • Posted By: Betti Felon @ 11/17/2007 1:27:04 PM

    This is only my opinion and what I know from being an author???

    As an author you must know your main characters. That includes back-stories, what they have in their pockets, who their best friends are, and what they like on their toast in the morning. Otherwise how will you make them believable? How will you bring them to life? Very rarely do writers/authors use ALL of the information they have on a character. The fact that Dumbledore is gay doesn't come up in the books because it has no bearing on the story. It probably would???ve come up at all had someone not asked the author about it. Honestly, what would have been the point? How would it have affected the plotline? I'll tell you, THERE IS NO POINT, AND NOT AT ALL. So why should she add this bit of irrelevant back-story? Just so everyone will know? Ridiculous, she wasn???t keeping anything from anyone. She simply knew Dumbledore more intimately than anyone else, and that is all there is to it. As far as I???m concerned anyway.

  • Posted By: Betti Felon @ 11/17/2007 1:26:05 PM

    This is only my opinion and what I know from being an author???

    As an author you must know your main characters. That includes back-stories, what they have in their pockets, who their best friends are, and what they like on their toast in the morning. Otherwise how will you make them believable? How will you bring them to life? Very rarely do writers/authors use ALL of the information they have on a character. The fact that Dumbledore is gay doesn't come up in the books because it has no bearing on the story. It probably would???ve come up at all had someone not asked the author about it. Honestly, what would have been the point? How would it have affected the plotline? I'll tell you, THERE IS NO POINT, AND NOT AT ALL. So why should she add this bit of irrelevant back-story? Just so everyone will know? Ridiculous, she wasn???t keeping anything from anyone. She simply knew Dumbledore more intimately than anyone else, and that is all there is to it. As far as I???m concerned anyway.

  • Posted By: ayeceaeph @ 11/15/2007 12:55:06 AM

    Get a life "idontsupportjk"...seriously...do you realize the inconsistency of what you just wrote? You said "let use not let her influence us for wrong ideas that 'homosexuality is ok'!". Are you not, however, trying to influence us as well? Does stature and fame lay claim to influence, or does public outcry do just as much damage and/or good? Do not be so quick to throw stones as you yourself are just as guilty.

  • Posted By: idontsupportjkrowlingandhergaycommunity@yahoo @ 11/14/2007 9:58:04 AM

    I don't stand for rowlings behavior. Who believes in God unite against this abomination. I say nothing more than this and that rowling is just another "leader" who has chosen to lead people in to thinking that homosexuality is ok--and she has that influence because she is famous. LET US NOT LET HER INFLUENCE US FOR WRONG IDEAS THAT "HOMOSEXUALITY IS OK"!

  • Posted By: idontsupportjkrowlingandhergaycommunity@yahoo @ 11/14/2007 9:53:49 AM

    Dubledore is not guy, Rowling cannot just claim this at the last second, her novel is over. And I will view Dumbledore the character as what he is in the books. Not what she claims--she was paid by a homosexual community!

  • Posted By: retard @ 11/13/2007 3:33:19 PM

    harry is probably gay with dumbledore

  • Posted By: Sammi @ 11/11/2007 4:12:34 AM

    Getthrowed, you are closed minded and wrong. I don't understand how this "People choose to be gay" thing got started. How would anybody know if homosexuals choose to be gay, unless you???re gay and know you made that conscious decision?

  • Posted By: Mr.Strange @ 11/12/2007 12:47:31 PM

    Comment: Its just a good book, i mean why complain because someone is gay I mean if you care that much of dumbledore being gay, you might find out it is easy to be gay as you are one now you can't just don't want someone to be gay I mean why complain

    PS: Its a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Mr.Strange @ 11/12/2007 12:47:29 PM

    Comment: Its just a good book, i mean why complain because someone is gay I mean if you care that much of dumbledore being gay, you might find out it is easy to be gay as you are one now you can't just don't want someone to be gay I mean why complain

    PS: Its a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Disgusted! @ 10/25/2007 1:29:22 PM

    I have read all the Harry Potter books as have all twelve of my grandchildren. I have defended Rowling to all the people I know who condemned her for endorsing "witchcraft" -- these were fairy tales I told them -- they are excellent reading -- have you ever read a fairy tale without a witch or some other dark force? -- fun reads for children! How wrong I was in view of this "coming out" of Dumbledore. What's the matter JK? No more ideas to write about? Not satisfied with all the money you have earned with these books? You have made me regret that I ever read any of them with your "indoctrination" of "tolerance" of something that is completely against nature. Too bad that "gays" (which is a complete misuse of a used-to-be perfectly good word) aren't confined to sexual activity with ONLY eachother and never have access to adoption. TOO BAD THEIR PARENTS WEREN'T GAY. Very difficult to procreate -- no?

    • Posted By: Mr.Strange @ 11/12/2007 12:45:33 PM

      Wat ever you fool! its a book geeze good sake btw im a child myself im 10!!

    • Posted By: Mithrandir @ 10/26/2007 12:08:47 AM

      True, I suppose it is difficult to procreate. You really are very astute aren't you? What's beyond me is why you even care. It isn't your business in the slightest what J.K. Rowling does with her storyline or what gay people do with their lives. My suggestion is that you crawl into whatever fowl place you came out of and stop sullying the world with your bigoted idiocy.

      • Posted By: roonalwazlib @ 11/08/2007 6:54:18 PM

        I'm not saying I agree with this guy but it's actually the business of every Harr Potter fan who wants to make it his or her business. We all loved and hopefully still love the characters in the books but like it or not Rowling's statement is highly contorversial and as such will prompt people on both sides of the issue to weigh in with their opinion.

    • Posted By: Hypnosis @ 10/25/2007 1:44:50 PM

      You know, you're wrong. There's a lot of homosexuality in nature. There's even a whole race of apes with the norm of bisexuality. Go out and see for yourself. The function of this in nature is that if a parent of a child in the group dies, there will be someone to take care of them. Also, homosexual birds have been known to mate with a male and raise their young with their female partner. Gay swans have been known to adopt abandoned eggs... It's more common than you think!

      • Posted By: JesusFreak18 @ 10/28/2007 11:32:06 PM

        Please do not try to place human emotions and thoughts into animals. It has also been proven that if there is any "homosexual" displays in nature it is because something like there not being enough mates Male or Female. Also there is the fact that most of those "homosexual" animals die of diseases.

        • Posted By: Izadorabul @ 10/29/2007 3:55:04 PM

          alot more heterosexuals die from disease
          and if animals are incapeable of emotin then why did my cat seem depressed for weeks when her kitten died and my male cate choose the stray tom over my adorable female cat

          • Posted By: JesusFreak18 @ 10/29/2007 6:08:12 PM

            Cats and animals do not "feel" anything. I am not saying that they do not go through a "mourning" period--for lack of a better word--all I am saying is that they do not fall in or out of "love". My horse lost his mare of five years and was depressed, but we inserted another mare and he was fine. And about your cat: male cats often assert dominance which may seem like homosexual actions, but it is only one male asserting himself over the other. Female cats even do this to tom cats. It is the "Pride" mentality. Even dogs do this.

            • Posted By: angiicarean @ 10/30/2007 4:33:47 PM

              The comment about the horse being a little depressed when his mate died and they you inserted a female and he was fine....interesting...sounds like human behaviour to me...break up with someone today...replace em a month later if most wait that long....it's called lonliness...and it is a human emotion and half the population are with people that they aren't in love with because that one is in love with someone else....so....sounds pretty human to me. Warm body...will do. ;-)

    • Posted By: Izadorabul @ 10/25/2007 3:58:48 PM

      I saw a special on the discovery channel Several years ago and they said an estimated 48% of all Species have at least bisexual tendencies And thats in nature as well as human the population so obviously homosexuality is if not anything else only natural since animals found in nature dont have access to homosexuality in the media and such that we do.
      PS im so gald you encouraged youre Grandchildren to read

  • Posted By: Mr.Strange @ 11/12/2007 12:39:53 PM

    Comment: Its just a good book, i mean why complain because someone is gay I mean if you care that much of dumbledore being gay, you might find out it is easy to be gay as you are one now you can't just don't want someone to be gay I mean why complain

    PS: Its a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Norrin @ 11/12/2007 6:32:56 AM

    I don't understand your point, "Kinda like how there are no gay priests?" Nowhere in all the commentary does anyone state that there are no gays. No one can refute the fact that Dumbledore is old, as Rowling make it pefectly clear that he is in his advanced years. But nowhere in the series does it state that he is gay. And as for the intensity of his "splitting" with his friend, what I gleaned from this (as well as millions of other readers) is that Dumbledore was attracted to his intelligence, not his ssexuality. This is not unlike many scholars today who share an intense connection with other scholars: intensity of intellectual challenge and the ecstacy of learning, etc.

    This by no mean does it mean that they are attracted to each other. And your point about whether God exists and/or if he created homosexuals is irrelevant to this discussion. What is pertinent to this discussion is whether Dumbledore will be seen as a gay character in future years, which I posit he will not. Just because Rowling, the author and creator of Dumbledore, states that the character is gay well after she completed the series makes no difference. The characters and storyline she created over ten years ago are no longer her own; they belong to the reader and his/her imagination.

    I don't agree that making Dumbledore gay makes him more altruistic and admirable. How so? He was all that without being gay. But I do admit that the characteristics you use to describe him are accurate.

    I'll say it one more time, the "outing" of Dumbledore makes no difference to the story. Rowling verbally added this piece well after the completion of the series solely to appease the gay community (they were pressuring her to make one of the characters gay, but she didn't). She knew that adding it to the storyline could have dropped its popularity like a boat drops it heavy anchor. Sad? Sure. Homosexuality is still not accepted in mainstream cultures. We still live in times where it remains intolerable, and now it has evolved into a key issue in American national politics. And Rowling knows that.

  • Posted By: thetrio @ 11/01/2007 8:45:27 PM

    I do not believe that Dumbledore is gay. Just because he never married or expressed love for anyone does not make him gay. His love for Hogwarts was so powerful that he could never love a wife as much as he loved his school. If Dumbledore was married, his love for Hogwarts and his students would not seem as powerful because his love for his wife would dimish it. And if Dumbledore is gay because he never married, what about Mcgonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Madam Pomprey, Professor Sprout, and every other teacher at Hogwarts? None of them are married either. Dumbledore was completely devoted to his school and he spent most of his life living at Hogwarts. His committment to Hogwarts was so strong; that is what Dumbledore is admired for, his protection of his school and the wizarding community. Dumbledore was the wizarding world's protector, being married would make him seem less devoted to his world and school

    • Posted By: tgrizzy @ 11/11/2007 4:39:16 PM

      Wow. Do you mean kinda like how there are no gay priests? The reality is Dumbledore was old because the author said he was old. If the author said the character was gay, he was gay. It certainly intensifies the dificulty in splitting with his friend over philisophical or political difference if he was in love with that friend. It is significant to the story.

      If anything it makes Dumbledore's character even more altruistic and admirable. It would be nice if people have to judge others, if they would use more significant criteria. For example: honesty, integrity, moderation, kindness, non-covetousness etc. rather than sexual orientation.

      If there is an omnipotent, omniscient god, then it is no mistake he created gay and lesbians...Unless someone thinks he is sadistic, fallible, or perhaps bored and wanted to see what would happen to create homosexual desire and then ban homosexual acts. Either god is all knowing, all powerfull, kind and in charge of the world and homosexuality is part of his works, or god misunderstood, made a mistake, is unkind, or was beaten by satan. I guess if you have faith in god, it is most ethical to embrace homosexuality.

      PS. It is just a good book.

  • Posted By: Sammi @ 11/11/2007 4:12:23 AM

    Getthrowed, you are closed minded and wrong. I don't understand how this "People choose to be gay" thing got started. How would anybody know if homosexuals choose to be gay, unless you???re gay and know you made that conscious decision?

  • Posted By: roonalwazlib @ 11/08/2007 7:58:02 PM

    You really should keep that hateful bullshit to yourself getthrowed. Yes their actions are disgusting but advocating hatred towards and murder of gays is even more disgusting.

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