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Rowling drops the gay bomb
ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 19 Oct 2007, 21:08 ---Oh my goodness slash writers are going to go absolutely crazy.
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--- Quote ---[Rowling] also said after revelation: "I had to give you something to talk about for the next 10 years...Just imagine the fan fiction now."
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She knows.
--- Quote ---"If you could marry anyone from the Harry Potter series, who would it be?" asked by Kristian Cuzco, 18, from Concord High School on Staten Island.
"I married a really good person. Harry is a really good person. And he's a gutsy person," Rowling said.
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Wait, what?
Iron_Fist:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 19 Oct 2007, 21:08 ---Oh my goodness slash writers are going to go absolutely crazy.
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My very first though, infact I momentarily froze up as my brain processed the full scale of the internet based implications. Actually, you know what? I don't think I'll be on the internet for a few days. I'm going to ride out this storm in the safety of some video games, old man slash can't reach me there.
KharBevNor:
Actually, guys, this is pretty cool. You don't get many gay characters in books written for children/young adults at all, let alone admirable ones. Then again, she could have let slip actually in the books...Phillip Pullman had gay angels bouncing around everywhere and no one complained that much.
Actually, I know it's a tangent, but did the His Dark Materials books not get big in the US? If something as harmless as Harry Potter could make them froth up, I imagine that HDM would make their heads explode a la Todd.
Boro_Bandito:
Seriously, if the gay angels weren't a slap in the face of every right-wing conservative christian Republican I don't know what is. And now they are making a movie that stars people like Nicole Kidman and the guy who plays the new Bond.
Though it being a "family movie" I bet you 50 bucks they write the gayness out of the second one. And the polar bear eating the cowboy. Man, I need to go read those books again.
And as for Dumbledore being gay I think she's either doing it for publicity or she just wasn't ballsy enough to write it in the books, which I think is a shame either way. Love takes all forms people, even fictional characters like the occasional butt sex.
Johnny C:
I bet if you go back and read the books it'll make sense. She's thought out most of the additional, unwritten information about her characters, it looks like. Also, why would she need the publicity? She doesn't. She's filthy rich. They have her reading from a throne.
She just let the character live and felt we didn't need to have it set in stone. That's her call as an author to make.
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