DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, !!! Options

[breakingdawn]

After reading briefly from her mega-selling book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on Friday night, Rowling took questions from an audience of 1,600 students. A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular headmaster of Hogwarts School: 'Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?'

The author replied: 'My truthful answer to you...I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.' The audience reportedly fell silent - then erupted into prolonged applause.

Rowling, 42, continued: 'Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad wizard he defeated long ago], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.'

She added: 'Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, "I knew a girl once, whose hair..." I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!"'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/sto...2196020,00.html

[superstitious]

I have to ask though, what's really the big deal? Does it affect your sentiments towards him now? Just curious. I think it adds to his mythos.

[ersatz]

I have to ask though, what's really the big deal? Does it affect your sentiments towards him now? Just curious. I think it adds to his mythos.

It's not that he's gay, it's that he has a specific sexuality...I always saw him as asexual. No one was good enough for him. He admired the beauty in some women but their intelligence and wisdom wasn't up to par for him. So, the fact that he fell so in love with someone he admired brings him down to normal-person level when I thought him to be superior. He's just like the rest of us, and that's a letdown for me. I thought he was too good for that.

[Gigi]

It's not that he's gay, it's that he has a specific sexuality...I always saw him as asexual. No one was good enough for him. He admired the beauty in some women but their intelligence and wisdom wasn't up to par for him. So, the fact that he fell so in love with someone he admired brings him down to normal-person level when I thought him to be superior. He's just like the rest of us, and that's a letdown for me. I thought he was too good for that.

Well I don't know about that; the last book was enough to show us that Dumbledore was a lot more fragile and fragmented than he appeared. DH already sufficiently made me feel that he was a lot like a normal person. We sort of place him on a high pedestal, but sometimes we forget that he's just a wizard (a very powerful one, but mortal nonetheless).

While Voldie was definitely a non-lover, he could be gay. You never know. He could lust after, be attracted to other people...I'm willing to bet that there would be tons of women lined up for him. Or men, you know, whatever. This being Voldie, he'd throw them away after using them. He probably found power in satisfying himself while demoralizing another person. This is not love.

Of course, these are purely theories...This is why I sometimes wish Rowling wrote a less kid-friendly book. Just so we could find out about these things...

[superstitious]

See, I like that it made him more human. I know what you're saying Sammi and yes, he did have this untouchable quality. I just like that in all this mysticism and mythology, there's some grounding as well and bringing to light his sexuality made him more real (for lack of a better word).

This is why I sometimes wish Rowling wrote a less kid-friendly book. Just so we could find out about these things...

I would love for her to write for an older audience, although she'd probably lose a great deal of sales.