2007-10-22 15:11:30 · 7 answers · asked by cuteness 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think she just wants more attention.
2007-10-22 15:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I don't know what to think...on one hand..there was never any crystal clear evidence that he was gay...wow..he and grindewald were friends...you might as well say that ron and harry are gay. But on the other hand, Rowling might be doing it to promote tolerance...there's nothing wrong with being gay and if dumbledore (an honest, kind, talented man) is gay,...maybe people will be a little more tolerating.
2007-10-22 22:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by in_jeneral 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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. and in any case, this story came out because she was directly asked if Dumbledore loved anyone.
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 Grindelwald 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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2007-10-23 16:12:34 · answer #3 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's good because now gay people don't have to worry as much. Dumbledore in the book has a high exalted man I think it should be the same in real life not mattering your sexuality.
2007-10-22 22:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
it makes no difference to me. Its a book, a work of fiction this is not going to affect the world.
2007-10-22 22:28:30 · answer #5 · answered by Pandora 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it is amazing that he is gay. Now she can piss off even more people...not just with witchcraft but homo sexuality
2007-10-22 22:18:22 · answer #6 · answered by brittk93 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
that i dont care because its a fictional book
what does it have to do with the story whatsoever?
2007-10-22 22:18:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋