Color me shocked.
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.
When the Harry Potter childrens’ books became popular some said the stories were infused with homosexual symbolism hidden in plain sight. Those individuals were ridiculed and dismissed. They now appear at the very least partially vindicated.
Wow. I didn’t get any hints from the last book at all. A bizarre friendship, yes, but it never seemed like that kind of relationship to me.
Stop that! You're making me blush!
Marketing. Can’t sell a book, film or TV series unless there is a homosexual element involved. Gots’ta cater to the perverts. After all dollars is dollars, so to speak.
For example?
Hey . . . the kids are learning to read . . .
Color me shocked.
it WAS a cute story until this recreational sex now infested the children’s story.
Rowlings is looking to torpedo the future of the series so it does not outlive her.
I sensed it was an adolescent crush and not much more.
I'm about 99-44/100% pure on this topic, and I intend to remain so. I have no axe to grind, and no dog in this hunt.
But isn't he...that is, this character... um.....ahhhhh...... ... .......fictional?
IIRC I read that the actor who played Magneto in the X-Men (and also played Gandolf in LOTR) argued for a gay sex scene between Magneto and Xavier. As I understand Patrick Stewert is also gay but seems to be a little less outspoken about it.
Fortunately wiser folk had control and it was denied. If the scene had taken place would the X-Men series have done so well? Think Brokeback Mountain...
Will “the love that dare not speak it’s name” kindly STFU???!!!
It’s really none of my business what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom as long as it’s consenting adults. Just leave me the hell out of it!
Sorry. Stupid people kinda piss me off.
Dumbledore - gay? Oh, boy.
Making it up as she goes along? It is fiction, after all. 
looks kind of gay
actually not marketing.
Marketing is killed by homosexual themese in children’s materials.
This KILLS the last movies. It becomes the “gay” harry movie.
It does put new meaning to the phrase "Dumbledore's Army.
I do remember one movie where Harry is in the basement with a giant snake.
Aren’t a lot of Brits gay? At least upper class males. It starts in those public (private) schools they attend.
If Patrick Stewart is gay, it’s news to me. He likes the women.
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