Come on! I love the books and the films, don't get me wrong, but when that's headlining your news it's a bit mad. What're your thoughts on this? Personally I think it's hilarious.
2007-10-26 06:24:18 · 12 answers · asked by Ethereal 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm 16 by the way, not that that should matter.
2007-10-26 06:29:39 · update #1
I don't think that JKR has an agenda, or is seeking more publicity. I think it speaks to the popularity of the series and the amount of emotional energy that fans have put into the books, that it became a big story.
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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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10...
2007-10-26 07:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Dumbledore didn't do anything of a sexual nature at all in the books, so why did it matter? Rowling was at least smart waiting until after all the books were out to say something like that, otherwise some overly uptight parents would have forbid their kids from reading them because they contain a gay character. It's just the media trying to milk Harry Potter fanaticism for a few more months worth of stories.
2007-10-26 15:12:25 · answer #2 · answered by bagalagalaga 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because there is nothing more scintillating than the notion that some grand wizard is a homosexual.
Because the powers that be wanted to temporarily lift the spirits of the homosexual community.
Because fiction and news go hand in hand.
2007-10-26 13:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by deanyourfriendinky 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think it was because her books have spread far and wide, and with hardly anyone noticing, i mean that is suprising when she sed he was gay, i thought he was just lonely thats why he made the plan with grindlewald not because he loved him.... but i think it is mainly because dumbledore was thought as a hetrosexual, old and strict about his beliefs man.
2007-10-26 13:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by BEfanUK 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I didn't know where it headlined. I caught it on Yahoo and then in back page of my local paper. Maybe wherever it was headlined at they didn't have anything new to report on so they decided to report on that.
2007-10-26 14:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
please dont tease me!- you need to watch the news more. it was on CNN lol
it's all publicity babe. there was no real reason for it. i think she just wanted to make Dumbledore that much more complicated. i still dont really understand him and i still think he might have been a little evil. *shrugs*
2007-10-26 15:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by VoteMo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just think JK Rowling outed the character for publicity
2007-10-26 13:33:12 · answer #7 · answered by gerbil31603 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I wonder what the reaction would have been had she confessed he was a pedophile? Hmmm?
Shock value sells better than facts these days.
2007-10-26 13:33:18 · answer #8 · answered by Fixguy 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Because it matters to the readers. And because the media likes to sensationalize normal things.
2007-10-26 13:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by Silvergate 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
makes as much sense as the big Teletubbies "scandal" a few years ago...
2007-10-26 13:32:03 · answer #10 · answered by jmd72inva 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋