Dumbledore is Gay, Says Rowling

Brilliant!

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Did the actor know that before he accepted the role? Tolkien could have learned from Rowling. Just think how much better "The Lord of the Rings" would have been if Gandalf liked to wear women's lingerie....or the elfin queen was an S&M mistress. Well, I can understand why she didn't let us know early on. She might not have made 7 trillion dollars or whatever it is she made. At any rate, I must say I didn't see it coming. My guess would have been Harry himself for funnyboy.

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That's the last straw! I will never read another Harry Potter book ever again!

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I have been a die hard Harry Potter since the begginning. I always looked at Dumbledore as someone people could look up too. Now I wish I had never read any of the books. It was bad enough she slaughtered his entire character in book 7. Bringing his character from a great role model to a power hungry maniac, but now she says he was gay and in love with his rival?? Why make the series into a soap opera? If I had known before, I never would have read them and allowed my daughter to read them as well.

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I'm surprised at the revelation, but even more surprised at the reaction. This doesn't actually change anything in the books at all. Why such a fuss?

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Jessica, that's a funny comment you wrote. Seems maybe you should take notice that when you enjoyed the series BEFORE you knew he was gay, everything was fine. Still the same books... Just your perception that was changed.

The whole thing is a soap opera already; seems you just don't want 'gay' in your soap opera.

You were able to maintain your 'willing suspension of disbelief' about magic occurances in the books, and even the fact that gay people are part of everyday society in real life... Maybe you can pretend you didn't read about all this?

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@29 - Regarding Luna and Neville - I wonder if it counts as canon if the author doesn't write it into the books? It's just the way they see the characters, but if they haven't written it down I think people get to make up their own minds. =)
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Jessica -

Why would you rather your daughter didn't read about gay people?

Would you prefer she didn't know about their existence?

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I am just gonna pretend that Jessica's comment was sarcasm, maybe it was. I hope.

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Wow, was it really necessary to make this an issue in children’s book? Let parents bring the issue up or not as they will. Nothing like having the “politics of homosexuality” rammed down your throat. Like so and so has two mommies or daddies or some other tripe. If you are truly good, whole, and spiritual you have no agenda to promote or refute. I am not against any kind of sexuality between two consenting adults, only the promotion of associated agendas in that regard. I think it was totally unnecessary to make this an issue one way or another in the Harry Potter series. I mean, come on, imagine if Disney said Cinderalla was really bi-sexual and secretly in love with Anastasia. Nothing seems to be off bounds today. How sad.

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It doesn't matter one way or another to the stories if Dumbledore was gay ... which makes me wish Rowlings would have left well enough alone. Do we need a compendium that lists every character's sexual preference, favorite color, and what kind of tree they would be if they were a tree?

I mean, as a publicity stunt I'm sure it's gonna help sell another few bajillion copies once "Hallows" hits paperback, so there's that. But honestly, do we really need to feed the stereotype of the older mentor taking an abnormal interest in school boys?

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I dont really care if he is gay or straight, but if she was going to make him outly gay she should have put it in the book, he is now dead so why does it matter?

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I enjoyed each of the potter stories I really did not need to know one of the favorite characters is really a fairy.

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The people who support the fact that Rowlings has done this and want to comment is fine, what I don't understand is why they have to attack those who were caught unawares and don't see the point or care for what she did. Also upon reading this piece I noted that it is written differently here than in the original one over the weekend, this one has Rowlings blatently referencing Christian groups while the original could have been interpreted in a couple of different ways, hmmmm, a little creative editing perhaps????

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I too have been a huge fan of the books since the beginning. I'm not sure how I feel about the "outing" of Dumbledore. He was one of my favorite characters. I cried when he died in the 6th book, and was anxious to see the role I knew he would play in the last book. What I want to know is how would Harry, Ron and Hermoine feel about his sexual preference? I have nothing against gays, but I agree with those who said Dumbledore's sexual preferences should have been left out of the media. Would that have changed any of the storyline if the Hogwarts students had known their leader and mentor preferred men sexually???

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Well don't Witches, Wizards, Goblins, and FAIRIES all exist in the same universe?

Haha... Dumbledore's a pimp anyway, no matter what sexual orientation.

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What the fetch! Are you just trying do, get more readers? Don't you have enough fans and money?

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I see alot of people are taking my comments as being against the fact that a gay person was in the Potter books. All I meant was that from the other things I have been reading, the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore is possibly more than a caring mentor watching out for a smart student who has the cards stacked against him. It can now be said that he had romantic feelings for Harry. That is the thing I am against. A teacher/student realtionship should not be something encouraged in any young adult literature. Gay or straight. I have nothing against gay people. If she had said Ron's brother Percy was gay, that would have been less shocking and disturbing for me. Any of the students even. But to make the headmaster gay and to have had them form such a close bond from the age of 11 is just not something I think children should read about.
I agree that it shouldn't matter now that he is dead, and it doesn't change the story. It just changes the way I veiw some of the intentions. I do apologize if I sounded pig headed about gay people in general.

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Actually I do agree with Jessica.. that's hardly homosexuality already, it's teetering on the edge of a pedophile inclination.

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Rowling said he was gay, not that he was a pedophile. Until you can learn the difference, Jessica, you are just as homophobic as your first comments seemed to infer.

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