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Rowling drops the gay bomb
supersheep:
I remember being SOOOOO pissed off when my favourite fanfic author came to that realisation (sometime before Goblet of Fire.) Thing is, though, it's true. If you can come up with a good story other people should read, you can probably come up with a coupla characters too.
ThePQ4:
I think that a fan fiction is a good place for writers to get started, though. I mean, I rarely write it anymore (with the acception of 1 story, which I only continue to write simply because I want to finish it), but it peaked my interest in writing and got me to create my own ideas for original works. Plus, when I become a published author, I totally can't wait to read how someone else will warp my story to fit their ideas. I mean, yeah it might be crap, but it will still at least be amusing.
Darkbluerabbit:
Well, at least a celibate character is contrary to the whole "all gays are promiscuous deviants" thing.
Or maybe they just didn't talk about his sex life, just like they didn't talk about McGonagall's, or many other adult figures. It's just how Rowling imagined her character. I kind of like the idea that in the books he could just be gay, without it needing to become an issue.
Apparently, she chose to bring it up now because a draft of the next movie script had Dumbledore talking about a lady from his past. She could have just quietly corrected the screenwriters, but it would certainly have gotten out eventually. Appropriately , she let Dumbledore come out of the closet right after National Coming Out Week. I don't know if that was intentional, but it's certainly interesting.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 22 Oct 2007, 18:25 ---Or maybe they just didn't talk about his sex life, just like they didn't talk about McGonagall's, or many other adult figures.
--- End quote ---
Bingo!
It's obvious to me that she wrote him gay. It's also obvious how him being gay is about as relevant as McGonagall being straight(assuming she is...actually, I don't want to think too hard about that, thanks). It doesn't matter and the point of him being gay has nothing to do with tolerance or making people accept gay people. Harry Potter just exists in a world were people are actually human(/wizards) and that includes gay people. What. Ever.
Can our culture move on now?
Mnementh:
Not until we know if Dumbledore was a fisting bottom with a preference for uncut dominicans
GOD.
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