I knew it!! He was waaaayy too interested in knitting patterns.
J.K. Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character
NEW YORK (AP) - 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.
After reading briefly from the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” she took questions from audience members.
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds “true love.”
“Dumbledore is gay,” the author responded to gasps and applause.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” Rowling said of Dumbledore’s feelings, adding that Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down.”
Dumbledore’s love, she observed, was his “great tragedy.”
“Oh, my god,” Rowling concluded with a laugh, “the fan fiction.”
Potter readers on fan sites and elsewhere on the Internet have speculated on the sexuality of Dumbledore, noting that he has no close relationship with women and a mysterious, troubled past. And explicit scenes with Dumbledore already have appeared in fan fiction.
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.
Rowling, finishing a brief “Open Book Tour” of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a “prolonged argument for tolerance” and urged her fans to “question authority.”
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.
Yea, I could see that one coming a long way off. It doesn’t surprise me at all. Now what she needs to do is write HP books aimed directly at adults so these themes can be explored, coz I am not going any where near that fan fiction!:lol:
Apparently some Christians really don’t like the books. This kid in my class, Theo, tried to get our school to burn all our Harry Potter books because his church told him to and “Jesus made me, because he told me that the books were bad. I spoke to him, and I heard a voice in my head, so I presumed it to be Jesus”. We were kind enough to point out if you are hearing voices in your head, don’t ignore them, because they will do things if you, like sabotage your friendships. And he needs all the friends he can get.
Apparently the Christians really don’t like the books. This kid in my class, Theo, tried to get our school to burn all our Harry Potter books because his church told him to and “Jesus made me, because he told me that the books were bad. I spoke to him, and I heard a voice in my head, so I presumed it to be Jesus”. We were kind enough to point out if you are hearing voices in your head, don’t ignore them, because they will do things if you, like sabotage your friendships. And he needs all the friends he can get.
If you have to ‘presume’ who the voices came from, they sure as hell didn’t come from Jesus. In the Bible when God gave a vision or a command it was flashy. In fact God never really did it Himself. It was always an angel who conveyed the message with brilliant light and wings and fire and a deep booming voice. You know, good shomanship.
Hearing a voice in your head does not fit the bill. Neither God nor Jesus were ever subtle. If one of them is doing something they’ll make it perfectly clear
This reminds me of a particular scene from ‘Dogma’…
The MetatronMetatron acts as the voice of God. Any documented occasion when some yahoo claims that God has spoken to them, they’re speaking to me. Or they’re… talking to themselves.
Remember kids, when you talk to God, it’s religion. When he talks to you, it’s mental illness.
Remember kids, when you talk to God, it’s religion. When he talks to you, it’s mental illness.
Yeah, we tried telling him that once, and he tried to get us suspened for religious discrimination or something like that. We used the phrase “a schizophrenic discourse with a deity whose existance is yet to be proved” and pointed out that we would have said that to anyone, and we were off the hook.
Whoo.. yeah.. the potterfic people are gonna be having kittens right about now…
There was one character, a really minor one, who was revealed in Half-Blood Prince to be black, and the pervy potterphiles were soiling themselves with rage and confusion over it. Up until then, they’d just assumed he was white, and written accordingly.
