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dumbledore is gay
Oct. 20th, 2007 07:02 pmWhy JKR...why? Just because you, as an author, know something about your character doesn't mean that you actually have to share. How does Dumbledore being gay add to the series, in any material way? If it were that important why not just make a de facto point of the series? You could have done it so easily. All those ppl whom you make digs at re not liking your series would have just had one more point against you, while the ppl whom you seem to be courting now would have loved you more. You went from a religiously and politically ambiguous series to one that quoted Scripture and seemed to take a definite stance on many of the political issues of today.
People often compare your works to the Narnia series. But you can read The Chronicles of Narnia and completely miss its Christian undertones. You don't have to be effected by it at all if you don't want to. I spent years totally oblivious. Even now, I don't think of it as a Christian series or a Christian allegory, but simply as Narnia! But now that you've spilled the beans of the internal workings of your mind, the larger world of the story that lives within the writer's own head, can I reread this series and look at Dumbledore the same way? Or even the entire series? How fundementally you've changed the story, madam, if only because of how charged a subject homosexuality is. And I'm sure someone (many someones) would argue that it shouldn't be thus, but it is and you've changed everything. For everyone. If it were not so, would your pronouncement have merritted an article in the Times?
People often compare your works to the Narnia series. But you can read The Chronicles of Narnia and completely miss its Christian undertones. You don't have to be effected by it at all if you don't want to. I spent years totally oblivious. Even now, I don't think of it as a Christian series or a Christian allegory, but simply as Narnia! But now that you've spilled the beans of the internal workings of your mind, the larger world of the story that lives within the writer's own head, can I reread this series and look at Dumbledore the same way? Or even the entire series? How fundementally you've changed the story, madam, if only because of how charged a subject homosexuality is. And I'm sure someone (many someones) would argue that it shouldn't be thus, but it is and you've changed everything. For everyone. If it were not so, would your pronouncement have merritted an article in the Times?