What's next? Will she blurt out that Snape was a necrophiliac or that Hermione has a tattoo on her butt? If these "revelations" are so important, why weren't they in the books?
2007-10-22 19:08:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
She is addicted to attention.
There are authors who are taking over Rowling and she has to fight them all of.
This was probably a stunt but it might explain why Dumbledore liked Harry and Ron so much and why he trusted Snape so much and why he was on Hagrid's side!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe the centaurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-10-23 00:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Vampyr 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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 10:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When an author writes a story, he or she already knows a lot about the history of the characters, detail that may not find its way into the manuscript but is nevertheless important for the full development of the character. JKR is just letting out some of that back-story.
2007-10-22 20:07:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This new revelation is definitely to be in the media glare. She didnt need it in the first place, then why?
OK! Let it come and go. Her next revelation, something she will say to tarnish her book's repute, should be that Harry married Ron and Hermoine was actually their daughter.
TW K
2007-10-23 02:43:54 · answer #4 · answered by TW K 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
D is gay has been playing abt in rowling's mind awhile.she decided to blurt it out during her tour.c folks' reaction etc. i hope she talks of nothing more tht could damage our ideas. so long it's good news abt trio etc,it's fine.
2007-10-23 02:57:18 · answer #5 · answered by Emma W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm upset by dumbledore being gay, but i don't think she was doing it for attention... well, i kinda do, but not a lot, she doesn't seem like that type of person, but i could be wrong. its not like i know her or anything. too bad.
2007-10-23 03:04:38 · answer #6 · answered by Brunette19 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
who said they were important? i think you need to question your motives...
2007-10-22 19:14:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋