Dumbledore was gay??

[Canai]

Originally posted by: irishScott
The books were fairly complex and entertaining reads. I didn't care about it while reading the books, why should I care about it now?

Well put :thumbsup:

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Praetor

Originally posted by: TehMac
Sounds like the attention whore is trying to get more attention. First she rips off Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, then calls them both bigots, then tries to create some post series drama.

when did she call them bigots?

If you're asking for a link, I don't got none.

What a surprise...

Shut up.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

I think she's just trying to piss of all the fundies who enjoyed reading the books. ...or maybe just to help them embrace their inner gayness?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

10-20-2007.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore.

A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.
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Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

 

[Kirby]

I bet he isn't getting too much action now.

 

[Platypus]

ahahahahahah awesome

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

How much you wanna bet she's doing this just to piss off the Christian right?

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
strait guys are allowed to love other guys, calling him gay implies sexual preferences which is completely unnecessary

Why would he be straight if he had never had any attraction to a woman, and only to a man, one man at that? Why should he be straight instead of gay?

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
I always liked to believe Dumbledore was above primitive urges whether gay or straight, this just fucks things up.

Rowling said gay, but again I'm of the belief that she just used the wrong wording. I think Dumbledore loved Grindelwald, but gay (homosexual) as defined directly implies sexual attraction to someone of the same sex. I don't think that's the case here at all.

Somebody's in denial!!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
How much you wanna bet she's doing this just to piss off the Christian right?

She pretty much says that right at the end of the article I read:

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

To me, I really don't know why she would even bother adding this information. I'm just going to assume that it is as people above theorize, that she just isn't intending it in that way (which to me just sounds like she didn't even bother to read her own crap as she has men loving other men in the books in a non-sexual manner). Next thing we know she'll be saying that Dumbledore is a pedophile since he loved Harry as a boy. Then she'll probably say that Dumbledore was Catholic.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

Yes, because we all know the good 'ol US of A disallows any sort of "gayness" to reside in its culture, literature, movies, citizens, art, etc.

Oh wait, you're just trolling again. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
How much you wanna bet she's doing this just to piss off the Christian right?

She pretty much says that right at the end of the article I read:

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

To me, I really don't know why she would even bother adding this information. I'm just going to assume that it is as people above theorize, that she just isn't intending it in that way (which to me just sounds like she didn't even bother to read her own crap as she has men loving other men in the books in a non-sexual manner). Next thing we know she'll be saying that Dumbledore is a pedophile since he loved Harry as a boy. Then she'll probably say that Dumbledore was Catholic.

It was in response to a fan-prompted question. Conspiracy theory much?

 

[Cabages]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Praetor

Originally posted by: TehMac
Sounds like the attention whore is trying to get more attention. First she rips off Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, then calls them both bigots, then tries to create some post series drama.

when did she call them bigots?

If you're asking for a link, I don't got none.

What a surprise...

Shut up.

Lol, way to go there sport.

Also, "I don't got none" isnt correct if your trying to say you don't have one.

Be interesting to see if this changes how I read the books. I was gonna go back and read through them all again, ill have to see if its a little different.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

10-20-2007.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore.

A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.
========================================================

Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

Because, like Iran, we do not have homosexuals in the USA, and we keep it that way. No talk shows hosted by openly gay people, no gay characters in popular TV shows or movies, etc...

 

[Pocatello]

So he's a happy guy. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
So he's a happy guy. Nothing wrong with that.

Actually he's more like a bundle of twigs.

 

[BoomerD]

ZOMG! A fictional character in a fictional fantasy story is teh ghey?
/me forsees the end of the world as we know it..

 

[ProfJohn]

Having read all seven books there was nothing in them that made me think he was gay.

There is no mention of any of the professors having husbands or wives, so it is not like everyone else has someone but Dumbledore.

Does this mean McGonagall is a lesbian? How about Sprout, Trelawney or Flitwick?

There is nothing wrong with him being gay, but since there is nothing in the books that directly point to him being gay why bring it up after the books are all finished.

Why not just give an open ended answer?

On the other hand, as a writer myself I understand that you know a LOT about your characters that never make it into a book. So I suppose she is just being true to the character as she imagined him.

Now I want to know at what point she decided to make him gay. Was he gay from the start or did that evolve as time went on.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

10-20-2007.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore.

A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.
========================================================

Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

Because, like Iran, we do not have homosexuals in the USA, and we keep it that way. No talk shows hosted by openly gay people, no gay characters in popular TV shows or movies, etc...

you don't get out much... do you? Examples:
6 Feet Under
Sin City
Mulholland Dr.
V for Vendetta
Pretty Persuasion
Queer as Folk
Happy Endings
Veronica Mars

These are just films/TV shows I've seen. I'm sure you could search and find many many more.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

10-20-2007.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore.

A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.
========================================================

Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

Because, like Iran, we do not have homosexuals in the USA, and we keep it that way. No talk shows hosted by openly gay people, no gay characters in popular TV shows or movies, etc...

you don't get out much... do you? Examples:
6 Feet Under
Sin City
Mulholland Dr.
V for Vendetta
Pretty Persuasion
Queer as Folk
Happy Endings
Veronica Mars

These are just films/TV shows I've seen. I'm sure you could search and find many many more.

He was being sarcastic

 

[legoman666]

he forgot the /sarcasm tags

 

[nageov3t]

old single man, no kids, never been married / involved with a woman, teacher, had a fondness for swords and wands, english...

I mean, come on.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What's the point of calling him gay?
How does it add to the story?

10-20-2007.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character

NEW YORK - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore.

A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.
========================================================

Now it will be interesting to see if Potter is banned in the U.S.

Because, like Iran, we do not have homosexuals in the USA, and we keep it that way. No talk shows hosted by openly gay people, no gay characters in popular TV shows or movies, etc...

you don't get out much... do you? Examples:
6 Feet Under
Sin City
Mulholland Dr.
V for Vendetta
Pretty Persuasion
Queer as Folk
Happy Endings
Veronica Mars

These are just films/TV shows I've seen. I'm sure you could search and find many many more.

Wow..

 

[MegaVovaN]

stupid attention whore for how much longer will that potter shit drag on?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
stupid attention whore for how much longer will that potter shit drag on?

I know! How dare the author of one of the most popular children's series of all time go out and read excerpts from her books to her fans and then answer question when asked! What a fucking whore!

Dumbass.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: loki8481
old single man, no kids, never been married / involved with a woman, teacher, had a fondness for swords and wands, english...

I mean, come on.

you just described nearly every professor at Hogwarts. Fail.