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Rowling drops the gay bomb
supersheep:
I'm guessing the thinking behind it is that, because there was nothing about Dumbledore which identified him as being gay, it's not as good a portrayal as if he was screamingly camp.
That's just a guess though. Personally I think that it's a bollocks argument. People are not identified by their sexual identity, y'know.
Freak Off A Leash:
In my opinion I think she just wanted to stir up some more good talk about herself. People are gonna take a look at the books again now and think "hmmm why didn't I pick up on him being gay before"..BAH J.K RAWLINGS lol...
onewheelwizzard:
I think it's pretty simple. She came up with characters. She constructed identities for them. She happened to construct Dumbledore as having homosexuality as a trait. Then she wrote stories using her characters, and Dumbledore's homosexuality wasn't really relevant to the story, so it didn't really come up except implicitly at a few points.
Why si everyone convinced that it's a publicity stunt, or that she's somehow making this up after the fact? I don't think it takes much imagination to understand that she really just made her characters the way she wanted and not everything about them was obvious.
Storm Rider:
It's not like Harry fucking Potter needed any more publicity at this point.
leave for no raisin:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 26 Oct 2007, 12:06 ---I think it's pretty simple. She came up with characters. She constructed identities for them. She happened to construct Dumbledore as having homosexuality as a trait. Then she wrote stories using her characters, and Dumbledore's homosexuality wasn't really relevant to the story, so it didn't really come up except implicitly at a few points.
Why si everyone convinced that it's a publicity stunt, or that she's somehow making this up after the fact? I don't think it takes much imagination to understand that she really just made her characters the way she wanted and not everything about them was obvious.
--- End quote ---
YES. Why do some people think that being gay must define who someone is as a person/character at all times?
The only extra publicity this will bring is that the religious crazies will burn the books extra hard.
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