Dumbledore is gay. What do you think of that?

Question

Did Dumbledore choose to be gay? Or did Rowling make that choice for him? So is Rowling sort of like 'God' since she created Dumbledore?

I'm talking about Harry Potter fyi, if you are lost.

ZeroCool is teh awesome.

Answer 1

I think it makes a lot of sense given his uncharacteristic willingness to participate in Grindelwalds "wizard supremacy" scheme. He was in love with the guy so he flexed his morals in the hopes that it might spark a romantic interest. It didn't, unfortunately.

Of course Rowling made that decision. She IS the "god" of the Harry Potter universe.

Hehe, I AM teh awesome! To be honest, when someone first said "Dumbledore is gay!" the other day, I was highly skeptical, thinking "oh boy, another HP hater". But then it was TRUE and I was taken by surprise.... but then I figured, like I said, that it actually made a lot of sense.

Answer 2

I read all seven of the books, and have seen five of the movies.
I don't recall seeing anything that might give me the impression that Dumbledore was gay...or that he had any kind of sex life at all, for that matter.
I'm sure most people would have said the same thing...that is, before Rowling let her character out of the closet.
What do I think?
I am bitterly disappointed in Rowling. I don't believe for one second that she ever envisioned a love affair for Dumbledore, either straight or homosexual. I think she was playing to the audience. She may have thought she was being very funny, getting "even" with the Christians who trashed her book (as if anyone really paid much attention), but she truly destroyed her own integrity.
As for her characters...well, they are fictional, aren't they? One might as well say that the Wizard of Oz was having a gay love affair with the Tin Man, for heaven's sake! After all, 'twas the Wizard who gave the Tin Man his heart, wasn't it?
Perhaps, since she has finished the series off, and everyone who was interested has already bought the book, she was looking to stir up a new market...
She killed her integrity...not because she created a homosexual character in what is essentially a children's story, which is probably bad enough, but because she ADDED that dimension to his character later, in an effort to boost her already amazing sales. She should have been content with her success.

EDIT:
I, too, thought that it was just another Harry Hater, and I was ready to bash the h*ll out of the guy who told such an outrageous lie...till it turned out to be true.
Oh, Ms. Rowling, how I admired you!
Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
I hope she didn't have further plans for the Hogwart's crew...I think she has destroyed any chance of success for a sequel...
Too bad.

Answer 3

Dumbledore is gay because J. K. Rowling, in her attention-seeking agenda, made him gay by making that ill-fated announcement.

The gay community should be outraged instead of happy about Dumbledore's revelation.

Why? Because J. K. Rowling disrespected them to the nth degree.

She knew that the books wouldn't sell as well had she made Dumbledore gay throughout the books. So what did she do? She kept her mouth shut until she made millions of dollars and then she outed him. What a HYPOCRITE.

And a poor writer to re-write her books after the fact.

Answer 4

When Rowling said that, it suddenly clicked with the events of Book 7 and made perfect sense to me. That gave Dumbledore a very believable motivation, as Zero Cool said before me, to go along with Grindelwald as far as he did and delay stepping in to stop him when it was clear what needed to be done.

My very hillbilly in-laws didn't get it at all, but suddenly decided that Harry Potter is no longer cool and that Rowling was an awful woman for making a character in a children's book gay. I didn't even try to explain it to them. They heard the word "gay" and instantly closed their minds.

The interesting thing was that the way Rowling introduced this fact ("probably gay") pointed to speculation on her own character. Dumbledore never comes out, but his actions concerning Grindelwald would seem to hold with this diagnosis. Rowling said it like she had only just thought of this...personally I think Dumbledore became gay all on his own and Rowling just figured it out after the fact! (But of course, all this is conjecture, and maybe Jo was just reading too much Rita Skeeter)...

Answer 5

Oh, noes! The sheer horror! I can see where you're going with comparing Rowling to God since she did create the guy and all, but no. The same logic applies to fictional characters as well -- they do not choose to be gay on a whim.

Answer 6

Who cares? Dumbledore is NOT REAL. Dur! Even if he were real, it doesn't matter. That would be his personal preference, and as a Christian myself, I would not judge him for that. I have no right to pass judgement. God is the only one that can do that. I have nothing against the homosexual, and am sick of that stereotype that Christians hate gays because it says it's a sin in the Bible. Christians are sinners just like everyone else, because we're not perfect, just as nobody else is.

Answer 7

JK made him gay, and I'm VERY disappointed.
If she had had any guts, she would have made him gay -in writing-from the very beginning, that way people could have made the decision to buy more books or not to buy more books based on what they thought of the characters.

I think he remains straight, since you can only create a character in the books while you are writing them, NOT after it's all over and done with. You gotta fit it into the plot and feel of the story while it's being palyed out, not way after it's done and over!

Answer 8

You are exactly right there, Rowling is god as far as Harry Potter is concerned. I personally think James Bond was a bit 'unsatisfied' in his particular field of womanising, trying to prove himself a bit too much, don't you think?
And, I like you answer Threshold.

Answer 9

Dumbledore is a fictional character in a fantasy novel. I would assume that a fictional character can be anything the writer chooses?

Answer 10

I havent read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff, I have no interest in it.