Dumbledore Is Gay

[voidcranium]

Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay
The Harry Potter author breaks big news in New York.


I have not read the books but I was wondering if this information enhances the story?

If not then WHY in the world is this relevant information.

 

[rainman89]

its not... plain and simple

 

[MrsGorilla]

I would think the information wouldn't be that relevant, especially if the references to it are so obscure that you need the author to tell you about it after the last book has been published.

And besides, my personal feeling is...who cares?

 

[voidcranium]

I would think the information wouldn't be that relevant, especially if the references to it are so obscure that you need the author to tell you about it after the last book has been published.

And besides, my personal feeling is...who cares?

I guess thats my point; why does it matter now?
I mean, how come she doesn't go down the list and note who is Heterosexual, bi, gay or celibate?

Whats so special about knowing that a character in the book is gay?

 

[Lister]

Well why can't he be gay, who cares, I grew up with Bert and Earnie on Sesame St, they were gay.

 

[statsman]

It's for those people who lost or gave away their Harry Potter books.

Now they have to buy new copies to see where the clues were.

Clever business people these authors.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Having read the books and seen the movies to date, including the one in which Dumbledore bites the big one (#6), there were no clues. Haven't gotten to #7 yet.

However, I'm not surprised that J K Rowling would know that detail. In my own amateur writing, I often find it necessary to define a not-generally-known fact about one of my characters in order to decide motivation in a given scenario. Whether that fact ever comes out in a later story is not predictable until I get into the next story in sequence.

 

[pono1]

Well why can't he be gay, who cares, I grew up with Bert and Earnie on Sesame St, they were gay.

Please, no, say it isn't so...(not that there's anything wrong with that).

 

[The_Doc_Man]

And all of this time I thought that Bert and Ernie were modeled after the cab driver and cop in "It's a Wonderful Life" ...

Shows what I know!

 

[Lister]

You mean you didn't know? Look at the photo in the back ground? How many photos do you have of your mates like that, hmmm. Why did they never go out with any girls? And Bert loved walking in on Earnie in the bath. The little lovers spats they had.
All adds up, they were breaking the boundaries for gay puppets everywhere.

 

[wazz]

And all of this time I thought that Bert and Ernie were modeled after the cab driver and cop in "It's a Wonderful Life" ...

and i thought they were just an "odd couple"...

 

[KalelGmoon]

actually she had a "decent" reason imho to drop this now. they are working ont he 6th movie filming scripting and whatnot and they were going to add intot he script a love interest for Dumbledore. Rowling said that that would not be a good idea because of his orientation. I heard that on G4TV as being her reason.

my wife about flipped when she heard that