Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay!!!!!!!!!?

Question

Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay, Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed.
WHY! WHY ! NOW!.
She has made a Billion £`s with HP, NOW IT LOOKS LIKE SHE IS GOING FOR THE PINK £/$.
I think that there should be a Book Burning in every Town and City WORLD WIDE, Childeren are very inercent people and don`t need to know who`s Gay or Not.
I can see a real backlash from this with HP, having such a huge following from Children they will be asking there parents what does this mean? WHAT DO THEY TELL THEM.

BTW in NO way am I getting at Gay people I have a brother that is Gay and I love him to bits.
Nor am I homophobic as I have Gay friends too, mybe I went over the top with the book burning.

Answer 1

I don't know what she tried to achieve by telling us all that he's gay - it has no significance whatsoever

I don't mind that he is gay, but why tell us after all the books have been published and it hasn't been mentioned in any of them?

Answer 2

I think its absolutely brilliant that Dumbledore is Gay!!!

Harry Potter has been controversial from the start and all you small minded bigots out there should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!!!!

How can you sit there and say that The Lord will Taketh away because of Dumbledore being Gay and then call yourselves Christians!!!!! And Book Burning????? We live in the 21st Century not the 16th!!!!! Kids today know alot more than you think. They should be told about different sexualitys and races etc as young as possible so they learn not to judge people and what better way than in a book they love. Yes, it was never actually in the book but I think its even better that its come out now because everybody loved Dumbledore..... if she had put it in the books all the close minded idiots of the world would start protested about Dumbledore being a pervert or something!!!!

Answer 3

Ha ha lol book burning ..... Welcome to Middle Ages????
No way book burning is to extreme I agree that it was over the age to reveal such thing because I htink that she just did so to have the attention of the press. Anyway it shouldn't affect children because through the book no clue exists about Dumbledore being gay. Anyway Albus Dumbledore is not presented gay and is not since he has a relationship with McGonagall. Btw all the characters J.K. Rowling created have become so popular that each who has read the book has created his own mage about each character so no matter what the author says the Dumbledore in my mind is straight and he has a relationship or is even maried with McGonagall.

Answer 4

I cannot believe how abusive, ignorant and bigoted you are being. In the books there is never any overt reference to sexuality of any of the characters. JK Rowling has not been putting ideas of any kind into childrens heads. What difference does it make to the character if he is revealed to be gay or not? And the reason JK Rowling told people he was gay was because someone asked her if Dumbledore had ever been in love, the answer being yes - she was bound to tell people with who (regardless of it being another man or a woman) people would have wanted to know. If you don't like it then don't read the books, but that says a lot more about your prejudiced views and blatant stupidity than it does about the books. And the fact that you want to incite something as ridiculous and fascist as a book burning - well that's the type of thinking Hitler had towards Jews, and if you consider yourself to be a fan of the books you obviously didn't understand the message in them to do with fighting intolerance towards others.

Answer 5

That's so over-the-top saying ''there should be a Book Burning''

Get a grip, it shouldn't change the fact that if you liked Harry Potter before, you should still like it now and it shouldn't change because Dumbledore is GAY!

Most children don't know what ''gay'' means anyway so it shouldn't affect them and even if they do know, it's a good way to show that there are homosexual people in our world and its a good introduction to different people. It shows that they can still like people even if they are gay, and it's a good way of stopping homophoebia.

Their are straight couples throught the books so what difference does it make if there's someone that's gay?

Answer 6

I don't think it's a publicity ploy. When one of the movies was being filmed, she had the director cut out a line of dialogue in which Dumbledore muses about a girl he once knew , explaining in a private note, 'dumbledore is gay'. So this is not something she cooked up at the last minute.

Unless you've written novels or been seriously involved in theater, you might not be aware of the idea of "subtext." In a nutshell, part of the creative process is to flesh out the identities of the character or characters you are trying to portray, to an extent well beyond what appears explicitly in the finished product.

I'm sure that JK Rowling has files and files of biographies of all the major characters in her books. She could probably tell you about each of their childhoods and early lives. Many would say that an author "discovers", rather than invents, these things about the characters he or she creates. In other words, the character takes on a life of his or her own. Most of this subtext will never appear explicitly in the actual book or books, but it is always in the author's mind and it helps guide the author in his or her portrayal and development of the characters.

Anyone who has done any acting will probably be able to recall the director encouraging you to think about your character, to ask yourself what his or her life is about, what he or she does when not appearing in the scenes of the play.If you have engaged in this exercise, then you have some idea of what authors do with the characters they create.

I have no doubt that JK Rowling came to the conclusion that Dumbledore is gay a long time ago. It only came out now because at a public speaking appearance the other day,someone explictly asked her about Dumbledore's love life.

Answer 7

I don't think that JKR has an agenda,or is seeking more publicity. According to the story I read, she had told the writer of the screenplay for HBP that Dumbledore was gay because there was mention of a female love interest in the screenplay and she had to set them right. Having done that, she might as well have made it public, since it would have eventually come out anyway--she could control when and how it was done.

Throughout the series, we know Dumbledore as a tireless and seemingly single-minded fighter against Dark Wizards (at least from Harry's perspective; we do have to remember that Albus is also a great teacher, an alchemist, and important theoretical Wizard--remember the tools and instruments he made himself). But how did Albus become that way?

We learn much about this in DH, with Arianna's story, Aberforth's story and the story of the friendship between Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. In reading DH, it was clear that Grndelwald seduced Dumbledore on a number of levels; intellectually, ideologically, and, by JKR's new revelation, emotionally. We don't know if that seduction was sexual as well, and I'm not sure it is important for us to know.

The revelation completes the picture for us of a man who felt betrayed, injured by one he loved, ashamed at how far he went from rational thought and behavior, how far he really was from what he thought he was.

The up shot is that we now know more completely Dumbledore's motivations for fighting Dark Wizards--his shame at his own tangential contribution to Grindelwald's career, his reluctance to fight him, and, when Voldemort rose, his determination to not to repeat his prior mistake of inaction and to fight Voldemort from the start.

So in summery, It was part of the way JKR viewed Dumbledore and understood him. I don't think it was something that would have come out voluntarily--more likely something that would have made a scholarly article 50 or 60 years from now after she was gone and literary scholar had access to her full notes (assuming she left them to be investigated).

BTW, there is some inkling of this in DH, where Rita Skeeter talks about devoting a chapter in her book about Dumbledore to the Dumbledore/Harry relationship. This is not to say that there was anything improper--but that JKR did put out a hint.

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Answer 8

Gay children are probably beginning to suspect that they're gay by now. I wouldn't go around recommending book burnings; some extremely evil people in the last century burned books because they didn't like who they were by, and then they killed the people who wrote the books, just to be safe.

It never says in the books that Dumbledore is gay, so what's the problem? Now's your chance to explain gayness to your kids.

Answer 9

Yes, your comment about book-burning was over the top. But I think the revelation about Dumbledore explains a few things from the storyline ... I've said this in a few Answers already, so for anyone who's already seen them, please bear with me while I repeat myself yet again. :-)

- It explains why Dumbledore and Grindelwald were such fast friends, even though Grindelwald (according to JKR) didn't return the affection.

- It explains why Dumbledore ever bought into Grindelwald's anti-Muggle teachings.

- It explains why Dumbledore took it so personally when Grindelwald went to the dark side.

- It explains why Dumbledore went to the extra trouble of deafeating Grindelwald in 1945 without killing him, when no one would have thought anything against Dumbledore if he HAD killed him.

Answer 10

I do not see why she decided on this ...

His sexuality is not relevant and to me is a mistake

I thought hp was set in a make believe world of magic and muggles ..

This latest revelation is a pathetic attempt at claiming the pink pound ...

I have no problems with peoples sexuality whatsoever but i hope she handles this well within the film and does not make a mockery of a main character being gay

Both my children are aware of the term gay ... They understand

In one way i think it is good she has taken this step as she knows her book reaches millions and if handled well may enable children to understand that there is nothing "wrong" with people who are gay

Answer 11

I think that J.K. Rowling told people that Dumbledore was gay to support gayness. I mean, people in those religions who hate gays and homaphobes don't know any better. Having a prominent gay figure in a popular novel might change people's minds about gayness.