Albus Dumbledore gay revelation

[beagle]

J.K Rowling winds up the fundies...

[Griffin NoName]

Now we know why Potter spent so much time alone with Albus in his study

[Swatopluk]

That should get a few extra volumes burned and she better not visit certain parts of certain countries or we will read "Witch Authoress burned on a pile of her own books". 
Are those at The Onion angry or happy about this?

[goat starer]

well he does wear a dress

[beagle]

So do Eddie Izzard, Martina Navratilova and the Seaforth Highlanders.

I'm not sure it's conclusive proof you like men.


P.S.

Welcome back Goat. 

[goat starer]

i did realise i was making a very sweeping generalisation there 

and i suppose he would claim it is a 'robe' which would include most monks, clerics, priests, imams, ...... hang on a minute.... perhaps this is more valid than i thought 

Hi Beagle - good to be back!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Goat! Welcome Back! 
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Back to Dumbledore, I guess it makes sense. So far the only criticism I read was from some gay organization because she didn't make the thing explicit in the book. I imagine we will hear from the fundies soon.

[Sibling Chatty]

I find that the less interesting part of her discussion...I was pleased to read that her series-long 'thesis' was "do not ever trust that authorities are telling you the truth". (One of the central tenets of my belief system, by the way.)

[beagle]

Indeed.

"It really is very dangerous to believe people, " said Miss Marple. "I never have for years."

(Sleeping Murder)

[goat starer]

"It really is very dangerous to believe people, " said Miss Marple. "I never have for years."

like I am going to believe her!

or you!

or dee dee! 

[anthrobabe]

well if nothing else it's pretty 'brilliant' of her

she'll be front and center for a while longer yet.

I don't think HP will ever really end- just this part of it. She's leaving the door wide open.

for what I have no idea


Hi you old Goat

[Aggie]

Good on her (and Dumbledore, I've just finished Book 6).

Took me a while to track down this full quote, but I'll rumble on it:

Rowling, who appears in Toronto on Tuesday, said her books were a plea for tolerance.

"The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry," Rowling said during the Carnegie event.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I may be going out on a limb, but the announcement kind of bothered me.  I feel like books, movies or what-have-you should stand on their own.  Now that the series is done, she goes and announces something major about a major character (including a major bit about a romantic link with another character).  My personal feeling is that now that the books are done and printed, she's missed her chance to add new stuff.

Imagine George Lucas had ended Empire Strikes Back before the scene where Luke finds out Vader is his father, and George just told everyone this in a matter-of-fact way in a press conference a few months after the fact.

It's just not how things should be done, IMO.

[goat starer]

seriously, having read some harry potter - 1 and 2 - this sounds like a rather desperate plea to try to convince the 2% of people in the world who have not brought the last 37 books to go out and buy them because they might have missed the "deeper meanings". well frankly balls! there are much better books for grown ups - whole libraries of the stuff - and children dont give a damn one way or the other (although i quite like the idea of "dumbledore" taking over from other colloquial childrens slang for a homosexual in the playground! where i was branded a "gaylord" and "puff" my children will be branded "dumbledores"). The problem is that that stupendously wealthy one trick pony has run out of ideas (it stopped at one) and is casting around for ways to keep a fading star in the media limelight. I assure you that (provided we have not finally wiped the human race off the face of the planet) the Hobbit and the very Hungry Caterpiller will still be being read when every copy of HP has gone to landfill.

but i may be missing the deeper meanings!

[Griffin NoName]

I fear this lady (sic.) is merely too attached to her characters.