It affects the last book, by clarifying on the relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and why it was so hard for Dumbledore to see that he was evil and the things he was doing was wrong.
It affects the last book, by clarifying on the relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and why it was so hard for Dumbledore to see that he was evil and the things he was doing was wrong.
Oh blow me...you and everyone else that has to jump on someone's opinion...fucking retards...you and nakedfrog both. I never said she had to lie. I said the only reason she did it was the attention. Get a fucking clue and accept the fact that everyone that doesn't absolutely LOVE all the gayness in society today is automatically hate-filled. Oh wait...this is ATOT where to have a stance where person's sexual choice deserves to stay in the bedroom and not in public is deemed ignorance and hate-filled...I forgot.
And to answer your question...Rowling was the one who brought sexuality into the mix. It was her that deemed him 'straight' or 'gay'. It wasn't me. I simply said she could have answered without defining his dysfunctional choice.
HeroOfPellinor
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Cause mere friendship couldn't have blocked him......it had to be the prospect of hot sweaty bearded manlove.
And I said the only reason she did it was because a kid asked her. This is a fact you seem to overlook in each of your gay-bashing ignorant posts.
I'm not fond of the idea of having a bunch of gay people walking around, but what difference does it make to me? Why should you or I give a fuck about someone's sexual orientation? Why should authors hide facts about their own books because it might get a rise out of people like you? I say again: get over yourself.
She could have, but why should she? It's an additional characteristic of Dumbledore, and clarifies parts of his past making it easier for us to understand some of his choices.
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You know, I think being called a "fucking retard" by you is actually something of a compliment
I agree. Maybe he can compliment me too!
I'm assuming you're not married Family Man, because that would be displaying your sexual choice outside the bedroom.
as a writer, you frequently make up complex back stories for your characters in your head to help guide their actions and motivations, even if the back stories never make it into the actual story. it's just a tool to help you write better.
if, in JK Rowling's back story for Dumbledore, he was gay, why shouldn't she correct it if that's what she views as canon for the series?
if, in JK Rowling's back story for Dumbledore, he was gay, why shouldn't she correct it if that's what she views as canon for the series?
Zenmervolt
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Perhaps true.
However, I think that it is more likely that she, as many authors before her, has reams of paper with notes about the characters' back-stories that have never been, and will never be, published. The style of the stories is clearly driven by character interactions and not strongly by plot (all of the books suffer from having the syndrome where the first 80% is simply back story and everything is resolved in the next 10%, leaving 10% for exposition at the end of the story). Generally an author whose writing bears those tendencies has spent most of his (or her) time creating the characters and inventing histories for them that may never show up in the books. The author then uses what is "known" about the characters' histories to determine the characters' reactions to situations in the books.
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ViviTheMage
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HeroOfPellinor
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He wasn't, really. The only time we see him making that sort of connection with anyone was with Grindelwald, which, if memory serves, was set at least 50 years prior to our reading.
Even then, I really didn't even think of it as a sexual connection. The way she wrote it was as if they were just entranced by each other's genius.
Scary. I will never understand how people can still be so ignorant in the 21st century.
Books are works of art, and as such they obviously enclose all aspects of human life and behaviour. This doesn't mean they are meant to encourage any of those.
A few of the most important books ever written have a pedophile as the main character... so what? We stop studying Thomas Mann or Nabokov in school? How about a good 90% of all Greek philosophy? I guess these people would ban that too.
Ignorance really is miserable...
NikolaeVarius
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In my Friends latin class, they've been spending a month reading erotic gay poetry in Latin. Kind of disturbing, reading gay fanfics in a dead language.
HeroOfPellinor
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I also heard that Harry might not have actually needed glasses. It might have been the case that he just liked the look.
Also, one Summer Hermoine joined a march against the war in Iraq.
I'll confirm these if I can if I get the chance to ask the author.
Also, one Summer Hermoine joined a march against the war in Iraq.
I'll confirm these if I can if I get the chance to ask the author.
zinfamous
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let's be careful with the generalizations (danielle steele, left behind BS, grocery store dime novels, etc.).
I know exactly what you're saying ("not allowing" high school kids to read Nobokov is a crime against humanity)...but not all books deserve the art label. ...just look at the subject of this silly little thread
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