There could hardly have been a bigger sensation if Russell Crowe, Rod Stewart or Sven-Goran Eriksson had come out of the closet. Millions of fans around the world are digesting the news that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter novels, Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
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.
All the Republikan candidates in DC, this weekend – kissing xhristian conservative butt – will have to come out against Harry Potter, now.
I am sure many of these fans would be astounded to learn that Dumbledore, in addition to being gay, is also a fictional character.
So was Harry’s sorcery, Doug, that didnt’ stop the fundies from getting red in the face about the coke bottled eyed wizard.
#2. reminds me of the Vatican official who complained that ‘The DaVinci Code’ was full of ‘lies.’
It was subsequently explained to him (carefully and slowly, using small words, presumably) that books full of ‘lies’ are sometimes called ‘fiction.’
Me, I don’t know what’s more creepy, the fundies’ hysteria about sorcery (and upcoming homophobic hysteria) or the Potter fans’ treating this like it was a real fact about a real person.
I’m gonna go buy some Harry Potter books so that I can burn them.
Dumbledore was gay, who knew
Who cares.
Rowling is a billionaire because of a few books and movie deals. I imagine she can take Christian outrage quite comfortably. I can’t think of another author that comes close to her success in both popularity and financially. Stephen King must have authored close to a hundred popular books, some with movies deals, and I doubt he’s close to her wealth.
#5 – who cares ? All your bible-thumping bubbas.
Tee hee.
Now the race is on to see which minister can be the first to warn their compliant flock of what an insidiously evil part of the homosexual agenda this is, implanting the notion in the minds of our impressionable youth that gays can be (gasp) good people. It used to be more predictable when Jerry Falwell was alive, but I’m sure someone can fill the void he left.
Didn’t anyone notice Dumbledore’s wide stance? 😉
Not surprising given the link between high priests and little boys.
RBG
Not surprising given the link between high priests and little boys.
What does being gay have to do with being a child molester?
#10 I hope you realize you missed the point. While being gay has absolutely no connection to child molestation, being a priest on the other hand…
I would be more impressed with this if she had written it into the books.
Ha!
I knew it all along because Dumbledore, Steven Spielberg, Jesus and Michael Jackson share 3 things in common:
The women they befriend are bitches.
They always like to be surrounded by rugged men.
Have a penchant for rebelious, brown haired boys.
11. Ahhh… good point Steve …. 😀
#11 – steve
LOL
The religious right has long abhorred the Potter books for containing witchcraft…now they will have a new bone to pick. Instead of applauding their kids for being interested in reading, they’d rather have a flock of uneducated kids, as its easier to make them conform when they have no education.
In the end, who cares? His character had no gay interactions in the book, so for her to come out and say this now? What’s the point?
First of all who cares. Its not like Dumbledore was going around having gay sex in every book, this is only an issue to those who care about such things. The moveon.org left will try to hold this up as some kind of gay pride thing, while at the same time attempting to bash anyone who happens to be conservative.
The far right who have pretty much denounced all of Harry Potter anyways will just use this as further proof that the books are some sort of devil worship.
For the 90% of America left, they just won’t care. I mean come on, its a bunch of Children’s books for Christs sake. Why does the left and to a lesser extent the right have to try to make a political issue out of everything. It is what it is, its a book for kids and as far as I can tell has never tried to push a gay agenda, so why make try to make it into something its not?
JKR: “Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down.”
If only Dumbledore had kept this secret to himself, there wouldn’t be all this controversy and scrutiny. But, no, he obviously invested in misplaced confidence and blabbed about it to Rowling who outed him.
Stay tuned for Harry Potter’s views on Afghanistan. Too bad Rowling didn’t have the courage to go political before she had the kids’ dough.
RBG
#11
The percent of Clergy who are pedophiles approx 0.1%
Percent of male pedophiles who molest young boys, who are also “Gay” 100% , including Clergy.
Are all homosexuals pedophiles? No.
Are all pedophiles homosexuals? No.
Are there homosexual pedophiles ? Yes, and a small amount of them are also members of the Clergy.
10 Ben, 11 Steve
MedicineNet.com
Homosexual: A person sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. Homosexuals include males (gays) and females (lesbians).
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3781
Merriam-Webster
1 : of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward individuals of one’s own sex
http://tinyurl.com/2rokea
There’s no other qualification. You are gay if you are a male and sexually molest boys. Of course we could be talking about the similarly-natural bisexual gene at work, I suppose. Or maybe even the equally-natural priest-loves-boy gene.
RBG
11 Steve, “being a priest on the other hand…”
Close… apparently around here you can chose when that rule applies as in the case of the above popular literary hero.
RBG
How about that Pope in his red shoes?
#19 – Lives in Reality – The percent of Clergy who are pedophiles approx 0.1%
You really believe this? I would say that the religious organizations are covering up for a much larger number of perverts than that. My neighbor’s son was fondled by the local priest… what did the church do… they quickly replaced him with another pair of priests (who brewed their own moonshine, broke into churches to steal the church silver and were intimate with each other… but that’s another story). No-one knew what had happened to the pedophile priest until a friend of mine stumbled upon him in the military… there he was… a chaplain. 0.1% is just the tip of the iceberg.
#17
“Its not like Dumbledore was going around having gay sex in every book”
But Hagrid was with him ALL the time, even when the half giant was a student at Hogwarts. It makes me thing that the old wizard had a thing for large penises.
#24 – Angel – It makes me thing that the old wizard had a thing for large penises.
Nope… his turn-on was chubby guys.
#19, You posted…”The percent of Clergy who are pedophiles approx 0.1%
Percent of male pedophiles who molest young boys, who are also “Gay” 100% , including Clergy.”
In other words, you posted total bullshit.
Who is thus Dumbledore person, should I have heard of him? I feel so uninformed sometimes.
Feel bad for the guy who plays him in the movies…
And I care how a plagarist says one of their characters is gay?
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#19, Lives,
The percent of Clergy who are pedophiles approx 0.1%
I have no idea where you got that number from. The only thing I could guess at would be it is the number of priests in the US that have been identified out of the total population of priests worldwide. But even that might make it too low a number.
I’m curious though. What does pedophiles and priests have to do with this thread?