Comments on: Dumbledore Was Gay, Said JK Rowling

By: lara

lara — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:50:38 +0000

how so maybe dumeldor was in LOVE WITH HARRY POTTER

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:14:38 +0000

I agree with some of you in that it really is a non-issue. Besides when your his age it’s not like you are prowling the streets looking to pick someone up!

By: Jimby

Jimby — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:01:56 +0000

True story: The character’s name was originally going to be “Burglemore”, but she thought that too obvious.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:22:09 +0000

Now George Lucas has to come clean about Luke Skywalker.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:05:16 +0000

Just wait for the protests to begin…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:36:56 +0000

Well, he’s gay ok. Big controversy, just before some major releases in foreign langage. How convenient. I do agree with John J.

But the real question is : is he a sex abuser teacher? That would be fashionable. Being gay is so much overrated…

Seriously : I read and liked the books ; this, is a non-event. Except for the comments

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:20:38 +0000

Dave: people who are greater fans than I (ie, those who read all the books), believe that Dumbledore being in love with Grindelwad (?) better explains his past actions (as revealed in book 7) than simple friendship or being conned into some idea.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:06:39 +0000

So, this is important because… ?

Sure, he was a fairly central character, but think about it; a fictional character in a fictional story has a fictional homosexual relationship with another fictional fringe character of the story, and that relationship is disclosed outside the world of the story. What difference does this revelation make to the stories, especially now that the series has run its course?

By: emilyelle

emilyelle — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:03:27 +0000

Yay!

Now, to work on Draco and Harry…

By: Willo the Wisp

Willo the Wisp — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:51:56 +0000

Yay!

By: ted

ted — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:41:36 +0000

lol.

To cast anyone as gay in that fantasy story is an affront to gay people. Harry Potter’s world is not a sexual world. If you really want to go there, Snape seems like a perfect candidate for a foot fetish. Hagri liked giant women - perhaps Harry could have found his secret stash of Jugs in the forest. She could tell the story of how Miss McGonagall initiated shy, young Neville Longbottom into manhood. Maybe she could reveal how Ron used that shapechanging potion to spend countless nights in front of the mirror gazing at, and fondling “Hermione’s” naked body.

To pencil Dumbledore in as gay is more of an insult to gay people than a compliment. She’s saying, “You can be gay as long as you don’t ever mention it, or act on it, and if you die.”

Great positive thinking. (sarcasm)

By: L

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:16:00 +0000

I agree with John J. Sorry, astroman. These kinds of revelations are the only way Rowling’s going to get any attention, now that the series is finished.

Or is it? Maybe she’ll come out with a new series called “Albus: The Lost Years”. Of course, it would have to go in an entirely different section in the bookstore…

By: astroman

astroman — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:09:18 +0000

@John J.
Do you seriously think that she needs this to draw attention to her books? (surprisingly there is no sarcasm in that last comment). Can you even fathom how many of these she have been sold around the planet? I doubt she needs this to sell any more.

By: John J.

John J. — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:23:06 +0000

Not that it maters to me, but I think she just did it to draw more attention to the books.

I don’t know how anyone could read the books after 2 or 3 of them. It’s the same crap over and over.

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:21:31 +0000

Now watch the retaliation of a bunch of close-minded parents throwing those books away as they won’t have their children reading novels with gay characters in them … even tho she makes no note of it in the novels themselves.

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:47:30 +0000

Actually what Dumbledore sees when he looks into the mirror of Erised is his family.

I’m glad Dumbledore’s gay, and I like that JK Rowling didn’t make a huge deal over it!

By: phyreblade

phyreblade — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:44:17 +0000

I knew it! I just knew it!!

LOL @RowlingRox

I’m willing to bet she gets more than a little perverse pleasure out of going up self righteous, uber conservative, intolerant Christian folks noses…

By: Lemons

Lemons — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:43:43 +0000

Gives new meaning to the phrase “Dumbledore’s man through and through”…

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:32:06 +0000

Even more reason that Ian McKellan should have taken over the role after Richard Harris died.

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:54:33 +0000

Awesome awesome awesome awesome.

By: Rowlingrox

Rowlingrox — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:12:59 +0000

I secretly wonder if she did that to futher piss off all the christian groups that already hate her and constantly freak out.

If I was a famous author, I’d totally do that.

By: Xayzer

Xayzer — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:35:14 +0000

So, Dumbledore is gay. In the Harry Potter books, who isn’t?

By: William

William — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:42:15 +0000

Wow. Now I know why we never saw him look into the mirror of erised.