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Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay
NewsWeek ^ | Oct 16, 2007 | By Tara Weingarten

Posted on 10/19/2007 6:34:32 PM PDT by hercuroc

J.K. Rowling, author of the world-wide best-selling Harry Potter series, met some of her American fans tonight and provided some surprising revelations about the fictional characters who a generation of children have come to regard as close friends.

In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience errupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort's predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonshed fans, Rowling added. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy."

In answer to the question "Did Hagrid marry?" Rowling replied that sadly, no. The half-giant had a flirtation with a giantess but she found him "a tad unsophisticated" and the relationship never went forward. In response to the audience's groans of dismay, Rowling said, jokingly, "O.K., I'll write another book." And when the audience continued to express disapproval added, "at least I didn't kill him."

Other minor characters, according to Rowling, came to happier ends. Neville Longbottom, Harry's meek and hapless classmate, married Hannah Abbott, another classmate.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: albusdumbledore; breakingnews; dumbledore; gay; harrypotter; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; hpitd; jkrowling; literature
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

You explained yourself quite well. Thanks.


161 posted on 10/21/2007 11:06:12 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void

Well thanks.

However, my point was that J.K. knows, better than any of us, that the magic described in her book was anything but real. Were it any other way, she would have used magic in her life rather than pen and paper, computer and word processor.

Most of us might wish that we could wish and make things happen, but then we get up and do the things we have to do to make them so.


162 posted on 10/21/2007 11:28:25 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: NicknamedBob
*shrug* Lot's of people pray to have the faith to move mountains.

Not me.

If that mountain need moving, I can get dynamite and move it.

I pray for the faith to move me...

163 posted on 10/21/2007 11:43:08 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void
"There is no try. Only do."
164 posted on 10/21/2007 11:51:07 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: NicknamedBob

But before one does, one must want to do.


165 posted on 10/21/2007 11:53:27 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void
Luke: I can't. It's too big. 

Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. 
And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.

Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

You must feel the Force around you;
here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.
Even between the land and the ship. Luke: All right, I'll give it a try. Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

166 posted on 10/21/2007 11:59:40 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: null and void
"But before one does, one must want to do."

Frank Sinatra on decisions ...

"Do? -- Be. -- Do? -- Be. -- Do!"

167 posted on 10/21/2007 12:03:39 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: NicknamedBob
I though musicians would get pulled into to this.

Don’t make me sic the DooBie Brothers on you!

168 posted on 10/21/2007 12:05:42 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: Publius

>>Not surprised. In reading the last book, it was apparent that there was something more between Dumbledore and Grindelwald than just wanting to conquer the world and put muggles in their places. The description of Grindelwald made him just a little too pretty.<<

Interesting - that didn’t seem odd to me - I thought that since she was portreying them as the two most talented wizards in the world and that their interaction was how Dumbledore learned he could not be trusted with power that was enough to explain his motivation.

Of course my wife says I have a terrible gaydar and that I was totally off base when I thought that Gandalf was portrayed in the movies as being gay.


169 posted on 10/21/2007 12:06:28 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>>This means Ian McKellen will get to play him in the last movie, right?<<

This does make it ironic that McKellen turned down the Dumbledore role when Richard Harris died.


170 posted on 10/21/2007 12:09:46 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: null and void

>> The really evil and really virtuous people are all in the wizarding world.

The series is a simple morality tale, good vs evil, with good personified by Harry and his friends and allies, and evil personified by Volamort and his allies. It is set in the wizarding world, the muggles are only there to give the reader a bit of an anchor, a view point, to watch the drama play out.<<

The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church described Harry Potter as a a fairy tale with a good moral as all countries have such fairy tales.

This was in response to a lawsuit trying to get Harry Potter banned in Russia (where Witch craft is banned by law).


171 posted on 10/21/2007 12:15:18 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: gondramB
in Russia (where Witch craft is banned by law).

Godless commies ban witchcraft? Who'da thunk it?

172 posted on 10/21/2007 12:19:08 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void

>>Godless commies ban witchcraft? Who’da thunk it?<<

I believe that Witchcraft was banned under the Czars. Under Lenin, religion in general outside control of the state was banned. I believe i have read that under Yeltsin, Christianity was legalized but that did not effect the banning of witchcraft.

I guess that Judaism and Islam must also have been re-permitted but I have not read anything to that effect.


173 posted on 10/21/2007 12:48:33 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: gondramB
I believe that Witchcraft was banned under the Czars.

Except for Rasputin, of course...

174 posted on 10/21/2007 12:57:01 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void
Now there's a visual. Cross Bob Marley with Vladimer Putin.

Rastaputin...

175 posted on 10/21/2007 12:58:30 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: null and void
"Cross Bob Marley with Vladimer Putin. -- Rastaputin..."

Ooh! That's ... that's Evil!

I like it.

176 posted on 10/21/2007 1:33:41 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: retrokitten; Tax-chick; Tijeras_Slim
I'm done with JK Rowling. First she kills off some of my favorite characters in "Deathly Hallows," then Dumbledore is gay?

Next thing you know she'll publish a how-to guide on inter-racial dating.

177 posted on 10/22/2007 5:18:05 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'm not hard of hearing, I'm just ignoring you.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Yeah, whatever. In my opinion, the author is irrelevant once the book is published.

I’m on a Henry James binge right now, anyway.


178 posted on 10/22/2007 5:23:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("For is he not of noble birth? The first child born above the Earth!")
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To: Explorer89

THAT was disturbing.... LOL!


179 posted on 10/22/2007 5:23:35 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Tax-chick

I bought a copy of Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” at an airport bookshop last week. Still working on it.


180 posted on 10/22/2007 5:25:03 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'm not hard of hearing, I'm just ignoring you.)
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