2007-10-20 03:15:07 · 11 answers · asked by mrpoet03 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i dont know why everyone is so surprised, didnt they see the movies? what with his fantastic robes and impeccable taste in antique furniture.
on a serious note, it's rather sad to read people on Yahoo who couched their homophobic values on J.K. Rowley's 'hidden agenda' and are up-in-arms about this supposed revelation. Kristin below me is one of those people.
Kristin, if you must insert your religious stance into a FICTIONAL story, and then justify it by supposedly "defending" JK Rowley from her detractors, it all speaks of your homophobic values. Whether they're steeped in religious dogma or just a facade for your own personal fears, I think it reprehensible but thats just my 2 cents.
It's this kind of thinking that makes Senators solicit gay sex in bathroom stalls. This out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality only further oppresses gays and make them act out in other ways. Kudos to you!
2007-10-20 03:27:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eh, I wish she hadn't said it, but I'm not too bothered.
Gay does not mean pedophile. That's the most annoying thing to come out of this revelation.
Dumbledore did not want to have sex with students, that's abusive, and he was a good person!
And Snape was straight.
This IS true. Rowling outted Dumbledore yesterday. I feel like this is something that popped into her head when she was criticized by the gay community for writing books that were so heterocentric. Plus, there have been rumors, because he never married, and the rumors and fanfiction must have influenced her, bc this seems really new and random (we're talking when she was writing book7 new). That's my best guess as to where and when she decided this. I am a little disappointed that she chose to reveal this so close to the book 7 release (or at all, if you couldn't figure it out from book 7, it didn't need to be said).
The anti-gay crowd can take comfort in the fact that his love for Grindelwald was unrequitted, so they never did the deed. There have been no other rumored or confirmed love interests for Dumbledore, so we can just assume that he was not attracted to women, and Grindelwald was the "love of his life". She did a last minute addition to canon to show support for gays.
The FULL Rowling quote can be found here:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/1...
Christian HP fan who rolled her eyes at this revelation. Dumbledore is STILL my favorite character.
Gay is not who you are, it's who you want to have sex with. Dumbledore is still who we thought he was. He was always a bit of a question mark!
2007-10-20 06:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs. Eric Cartman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I DO NOT understand why something so political has to be an issue in a book series for children and adolescents. I would have never thought to infer Dumbledore's homosexuality from the books. Knowing or not knowing is not essential to the story. The fact that Rowling felt it necessary to reveal such a controversial thing after the fact of the books seems like an attempt on her part to stay relevant. It turns something that was wonderfully imaginative and delightful into something jaded.
Rowling's statements about promoting tolerance only confirm the arguments of those who do not like her. She has enough enemies in those who believed her to be promoting witchcraft. Her comments only seem to confirm these accusations rather than dispel them. If those who hated Harry Potter for that didn't have enough fuel for their fire, now they have something else to add to their smug parade. Who now can disagree with them? Who now can say, "no, that's not what she was trying to do at all," when she herself admits that tolerance is her political agenda.
In response to Dave A.'s comments:
"on a serious note, it's rather sad to read people on Yahoo who couched their homophobic values on J.K. Rowley's 'hidden agenda' and are up-in-arms about this supposed revelation. Kristin below me is one of those people."
First of all, to be correct "homophobic values" cannot be couched on J.K's hidden agenda. They would be couched on a set of personal religious values.
Secondly, although a homosexual lifestyle might not fit with my belief system (to which I am entitled and will always defend), I am MORE saddened by the fact that J.K. felt the need to make it an issue when it is clearly not an issue in the books. I am MORE saddened that I now have no grounds on which to defend J.K. against accusations (by people who actually are close minded) that she is trying to promote tolerance and acceptance of things like witchcraft and now homosexuality instead of just writing great books. By her comments, she confirms a hidden agenda that I have never believed to be present in the books.
I love the Harry Potter books. I think that they are exceptionally well-written and delightful w/ great character development and plot. In fact, I've been a fairly hard core fan: midnight purchases of the books which I've read and reread at least six times apiece, visits to all the message boards like mugglenet.com, trivia games, collection of Potter related memorabilia, etc. There are, in fact, at least six Harry Potter posters up in my classroom.
I just wish J.K. had allowed the books to stay in that realm of fun and innocence instead of trying to make them a center of controversy.
2007-10-20 03:47:10 · answer #3 · answered by Kristin 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the only problem i see with it is that now it gives the Christians who oppose this book more reason to do so.
I'm a Christian and I love the books. I am upset that other Christians think it is "devil worshiping" when they have not read it. I could go on and on about the religious underlie in the books, but I wont, but she even put a couple of Bible versus in the books!
2007-10-20 07:04:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She didn't write him gay. She's just trying to capitalize on the gay community.
2007-10-20 03:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by Tony S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same thing I think about Potter being gay.....irrelevant to the story.
2007-10-20 03:19:17 · answer #6 · answered by Paul L 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
She ruined my hero! Well book seven also helped on that but I never thought there could be something like that in Harry Potter.
2007-10-20 03:40:27 · answer #7 · answered by HPBoOkReAdErr! 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
i hate her , i mean did she really think that people would like what she did to the character , and now everytime i will read harry potter or watch it i'll feel uncomfortable
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2007-10-20 04:22:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
She's trying to stay in the limelight and promote her liberal, tolerant agenda AND promote a stereotype that all caring, gentle, affectionate men are gay. THE END.
2007-10-20 03:20:00 · answer #9 · answered by Rick 4 · 1⤊ 7⤋
There is NOWHERE in the books that even SUGGEST that. Shut up and actually READ a book instead of critizising one.
2007-10-20 03:32:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋