Harry Potter's headmaster was gay. Why all the fuss?
Every major news organization from The New York Times to Time Magazine is going to press this week with the news that J.K. Rowling has declared Hogwarts’ headmaster and Wizard Dumbledore was gay!…
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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26 - Jet in Columbus
Excuse that last, I didn't mean to go on and on...
27 - Jet in Columbus
Anyone know why it takes so long for a posted comment to appear?
28 - Sore-Cerer
So is Dumbledore a medium or a large?
29 - Jet in Columbus
While I'm sure that's a very good question my friend, I doubt that he's into size queens...
30 - Samantha
While I have nothing against the gay or lesbian community I do have an issue with Mrs. Rowling's choice of timing to announce such a prestigious development of such an influential character.
I thought waiting until her publicity had died down (with the seventh book being published last July) to announce such an obviously controversial factoid was in the least tacky if not a bit avaricious.
Also, I felt it was unfair to so obviously limit the demography of her wondrous novels. (Some people will be offended and hoping to preserve and protect the morality of their children will limit their children from the pleasure and learning experience of these novels.)
If only Mrs. Rowling had simply wrote this in her novels there would be less of a scandalous air around our poor headmaster and wider acceptance of his sexuality. Those people that disagreed with such knowledge could simply put the book down and those that could accept it could continue to read in peace. But now that Mrs. Rowling has waited to expose Dumbledore’s “preferences” lovers of the novels are forced into turmoil of internal moral conflict.
I was introduced to the first Harry Potter novel when I was but a mere third-grader and have continued to read them all the way up to the seventh book as a junior in high school. That’s over half of my childhood!!! Now I find that I am questioning everything about it: Is Sirious a pedophile? Is Minerva a lesbian? And was Dumbledore’s reason for trust and his frustrating passion of keeping Severous Snape around due to a secret affair? I am afraid that I won’t be able to relay as much faith in a book’s characters ever again, for I love, trusted and looked up to Professor Dumbledore only to find out he seemingly lead an entire life out of the lime-light that I was completely unaware of. This saddens me a great deal that I will never be able to think of Dumbledore the same again along with any other fatherly figure or major role model.
However, I’m sure Mrs. Rowling had a perfectly acceptable reason for announce such news in the fashion she chose. I can only hope this does not limit to many children’s learning experience or growing fondness of literature.
31 - Jet in Columbus
My dear Samantha, I'd only to read your first sentence, to know that it and you to be a liar, and was proven right.
You are obviously the kind that minds everyone's business but her own, and takes great joy and pompousness in considering yourself the community "moral yardstick", pronouncing what is "acceptable" of all you survey.
I hope your proud of yourself, but please be careful you don't get a sunburn from having your nose so far up in the air...
32 - Michael J. West
While I did love the article, I'm really over the freakin' MOON that you're back, Jet.
:)
33 - Jet in Columbus
As long as my eyes and heart hold out anyway. Thanks much Mike. I'm on coumadin therapy for congestive heart failure, and I was bored trapped here in my penthouse...
34 - Jet in Columbus
Dear Fresh Comments freaks: There's no need to reprint your comments 3-8 times. The delay is the spam filter keeping out unwanted spammers.
Wait about 30 seconds. It'll print out...
Really!
35 - Jensen
I found an interesting survey that discusses Rowling outing Dumbledore, its definitely worth a look.
36 - Jet in Columbus
Jensen, in the end it doesn't matter one way or the other what a survey says. Rowling created the character and can dub him anything she wants, regardless of public opinion, be it gay, left-handed or a reformed druid...
37 - tradamerica
Rowling's tardy claim reveals her implicit contempt for homosexuals.
38 - tradamerica
Hmmm, I see the heterophobes are "out" tonight - name calling as usual.
39 - Jet in Columbus
Dear, Dear, the is a reason by they call it rough trade you know!
40 - Jet Gardner
Part 1- HEADLINE: Daniel Radcliffe has multiple gay sex scenes in his just released film!
PARK CITY, Utah-Before, during and after the Sundance Film Festival premiere of "Kill Your Darlings" on Friday night (January 18), all anyone could talk about, so it seemed, was Daniel Radcliffe's sexual escapades.
41 - Jet Gardner
Part 2-Maybe it was because this erotically charged Beat Generation drama represents the 23-year-old's most high-profile film since he graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Or, perhaps, it had something to do with the fact that in "Darlings," he plays the poet Allen Ginsberg and spends a fair amount of the film making out, having gay sex and masturbating.
But here's the thing: Radcliffe is totally cool with all of it and he doesn't understand why so many others aren't.
42 - Jet Gardner
This whole-comment rejection problem is assinine
43 - Jet Gardner
Part 3-"It's interesting that it's deemed shocking," he told MTV News. "For me, there's something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. We've seen gay sex scenes before. I don't know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene. Or both of them are equally un-shocking."
That Radcliffe has such an enlightened perspective on these matters is no surprise, considering the Brit has been an outspoken proponent of gay rights, working closely over the years with the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focused on crisis support and suicide prevention.