what day was this informatioan released?i have a friend whose writing an article and she needs the date
2007-10-31 04:54:55 · 4 answers · asked by whitewolf1152 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It happened October 19, 2007 at an event in Carnegie Hall (NYC). JKR was answering questions when someone asked if Dumbledore was gay.
2007-10-31 05:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by wdmc 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wdmc is **mostly** correct. The date was October 19 and JKR was doing a Q&A session at Carnegie Hall. However, the question she was asked was whether Dumbledore had ever been in love.
That's when JKR said that Dumbledore was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald (the wizard who went Dark Side and whom Dumbledore defeated in 1945), but that it wasn't returned.
2007-10-31 05:47:08 · answer #2 · answered by Navigator 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And I will continue to pose the question whenever this subject is brought up -- WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Whether his relationship with his childhood friend, Grindelwald, was homosexual or Platonic, how does this diminish or cast any different light on the books millions have enjoyed before this now-commonplace revelation? It's not as if Dumbledore ever groped any of his students. It's never said that he had any relations with any of the faculty or parents. He had an admiration, maybe an infatuation, maybe a love for a childhood friend that many of us have had. It also doesn't say that he acted sexually on this impulse, which is why I used the term "Platonic" earlier. Tell your friend that maybe she should devote a good bit of her article on whether we have lost sight of what a Platonic relationship is and wouldn't know one if it bit us in the butt. Maybe Platonic is the correct term, but JKR knows that half of her readership would tilt their head sideways like the RCA Victor dog and go "huh?" I mean, Platonic is much more difficult to understand than gay, so let's just take the easy way out. Ask a grandfather who served in WWII if he loved his fellow GIs who served with him. He'll cry at their tombstones for the loss of a dear friend but it doesn't make them gay
2007-10-31 05:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by actormyk 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The link below will give your friend the date.
wl
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10...
2007-11-02 01:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋