Dumbledore Gay?

Question

this just seems stupid, a pathetic ploy to seem politically correct after the fact. If there were to be gay wizards they should have been there from the start. Not released after the fact. It just seems a poor tactic on Rowling's part. A more talented author wouldn't try to tell it's readers how to view there characters, they would allow them to make it their own. what do you think?

Answer 1

Although I do not have anythinig against gay people, but i'm shocked... confused... upset... on JKR's decision to out Dumbledore... HP was a book were there was no sexuality or anything like that.... and making a wizard, such as Dumbledore gay was a stupid move... I don't think many readers were ever conserned by his sexuality, i don't think many people enev wondere if he had ever been inlove or not... and it seems absolutley ridiculous to me that he ended up being gay... i think it was a cheup publicity stunt on JKR's behalf...

Answer 2

Dumbledore being gay has nothing to do with the story and if she put it in, it wouldn't really fit. I think you're being an idiot, JK Rowling isn't saying view Dumbledore as a gay man because truthfully being gay doesn't change who you are or what your personality is like. I think by saying that when Dumbledore was a young adult and he fell in love with another, it made me think and relate to him more so than ever before. When I heard the news about JK telling about this, I was thrilled because I think of this as such a positive attribution to hopefully changing the perception of gay people to the world. Dumbledore was an amazing wizard and he didn't act "gay". No one could tell that he was, besides the little hints she wrote. I hope that when children, teenagers, and adults read these books, they learn that tons of people are gay and that doesn't change what they are.

Answer 3

I disagree. I think that authors have ideas about their characters the entire time they are writing. The book was not centralized around Dumbledore's sexuality and to mention it would have accomplished nothing. Then again, as the author he may have been gay from the very beginning. So. The reason she answered the question was because someone asked her specifically about if Dumbledore ever fell in love with a girl. She answered it, as a mediator for her character, and that is all. She did not just stand on a corner and say "Dumbledore's Gay! Buy my books!" *smile* I think it's a non-issue. Simply something that came out because of a specific question that was asked. Nothing more.

Answer 4

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 scholars 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 5

i dont really care. dumbledore is a fictional character in a very good book.

Answer 6

Rowling just wanted to attract more attention to her books, after all, that was her last book. It was a dumb idea, and it really upsets me that after she releases the seventh and last book she releases stuff that should have been included way before. Ugh!

Answer 7

wat the hell was she thinking i mean come on even if he was gay in her mind from the start why go and ruin it for the rest of us who think that is grotesque and why mention it now at the end dammit j.k.Rowling now i will never read those book the same is that the real reason Aberforth didnt like him or was he gay too
who else will be messed up and why why why why why wait till the end from now on say it at the beginning and dont make stuff up in a split second
and in my family (a catholic family) someone is gay and it ruins everything and now when i think of dumbledore being gay like him it makes me want to barf that is the sickest thing ever God wat else will go wrong (way to ruin the best book series in the world j.k. ) wahtever i just hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

i agree, i feel like she just made up that "fact" a couple days ago. Like it wasnt something she established right when she started writing the first book. She shouldve mentioned it before because obviously no one knew.

Answer 9

i agree. i think she just wanted more attention. to bad no more hp books..