Outing Gives Potter Passages New Meaning
With author J.K. Rowlings revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning.The British author stunned her fans at Carnegie Hall on Friday night when she answered one young readers question about Dumbledore by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald, whom he had defeated years ago in a bitter fight.
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I can’t believe this!!! I mean why are you going to come out NOW and say he was gay??? First of all, it doesn’t really effect the story and if she wanted to make some kind of statement, why wait till all the book are finished?? I think she’s really trying to go overboard with the shock factor……
I talked to Susan about it, and she suspected it was the case from the last book based on some of the language that was used.
She said it made a lot of sense in retrospect. Of course, she must have read the last book three times, too.
I blazed through it not even thinking about it. Heck, I can barely remember what I read!
Yeah, I wasn’t surprised at all — it was very much the subtext in the last book. Of course, I also thought the subtext was that there was something between Remus and Sirius, right up until the sudden introduction of Tonks after everyone else read it the same way I did.
The dude had no choice. He was ugly and old. What hot witch is gonna have him? I guess everyone has it figured out by now that the old man’s lover was actually Snape.
Of course, it is a powerful statement that his sexual preference was, from the reader’s perspective, irrelevant to his character.