Harry Potter's Mentor is Gay
J.K. Rowling has ousted the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as being gay. People were shocked by this announcement. She announced it in response to a question from a fan asking if Dumbledore ever finds true love.
I tell you what, it's probably a good thing that she kept that one under wraps. As it was she had the do gooders on the warpath with all her nonsence about witches and wizards. But a gay wizard, that is just way too much.
I love the fact that she did this. The kids that grew up with the Harry Potter series grew to love the characters and so did their parents. They were good healthy rolemodels, you know, except from the fighting and dueling and death. These kids are possibly going to grow up seeing that just because someone is gay, it does not make them a bad person. Dumbledore as a character was so far removed from bad that it is almost impossble to turn on him because he had so many more good qualities.
I think she has taught people an important lesson, that you shouldn't judge people based on their sexual preference. I hardly think that this will change the children's opinions of the character as they got to know the rest of him first.
So here's to you Ms Rowling - awesome work!!!
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Great post
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I was hoping someone would post on this, when I first heard about it, I thought it was a tease, by a homophobe.
But, apparently true! When I was young, I waited till people got to know me well, before I told them. Mind you, in my early years it was still illegal to be gay and God condemned you to Hell.
At school, if anyone thought someone was gay, or a poofter as it was ONLY known as then, you were mercilessly harassed and often this ended up in a physical beating.
The teachers often felt this was just natural playground justice and that nature will take its course and usually the only succour obtainable, "you need to toughen up boy! Then you'll become a man and stop being a bloody pansy!"
Anyhoo...good on her...and one other thing, although many households will embrace all this in the spirit it is meant, many will not, homophobia exists even to this day. Some will be trapped in between, watching their parents chuck the perverted books out in the garbage, while waring their child against the evils of homosexuality, the child left confused and divided on the issue, which can lead to a more dangerous type of acting out, for the benefit of the parent.
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I am SO miffed that she didn't include the passage she had written where Dumbledore thinks back on all his old flames; IMO it would have had much more impact in the book then as a side note now that the series is over. But still, better late then never I guess.
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The text is all that matters! The authors intentions don't mean anything if not a single other person in the world could pick it up from just reading the books.
She's nowhere near as daring as she might think, as she didn't dare include it in the story itself, or at least make it possible for people to guess it.
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I have to agree with Luke, as it makes no sense... well, unless she has more up her sleeve and it's a pre-cursor for something else?
Who cares if he was gay... as Luke says, if it meant something to her, she should have written it into the storyline... otherwise it is useless trvia and will not stick. Dumbledore's character as portrayed in the book is all that people will remember... not that he was a gay wizard...that shouldn;t matter anyway, should it?
It is an offbeat interesting comment for her to have made though, don't you think?
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That's my point, he is portrayed as a kind mentor. I never thought once to question if he was a gay mentor or not, because it doesn't matter.
It does not follow that because he is gay that is his only interest in helping Harry either. That would make him a Paedophile and (as far as I know), being gay doesn't automatically make you that either, does it?
So again, I am left to wonder why she (JKR) would choose to 'reveal' this nonsence now, after the storm has come and gone... It feels like a precursor for a prequel to me?!*!
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