Posted on 03/17/2008 7:44:22 AM PDT by Terriergal
And to comment on the original article, it's pretty obvious that most people commenting here simple read the headline and jumped to conclusions. Rowling's actual remarks were fairly reasonable and this is yet another example of the headline writer distorting the actual story to grab attention.
I’ll try to remember that next time I get to the used book store. (Cindy and Sally, right?) Anoreth has been nagging - she wants more war books.
These days, that’s impossible.
“Gay marriage” is on the news all the time. It forced an explanation for the teen and pre-teen, but my nine year old is still oblivious.
My son is nauseated by Rowling’s revisionist pronouncement, and my daughter is indignant.
I MISS my used book stores in CA. I went into the local one here, and they didn’t know what “Regency romance” was. That was a freaky experience. :)
I’ve been using www.paperbackswap.com recently.
You’re right, of course.
But I don’t think Rowland made an “announcement” as such about Dumbledore.
What happened was that the director of one of the movies had Dumbledore saying something indicative of a love or an attraction for a woman (don’t remember what) and she said, ‘oh, no, Dumbledore is gay.’
Like the previous poster said, she had a lot of back story on her characters and she probably thought everyone would realize that if they really thought about it.
She was wrong ... I didn’t even think about it.
But I don’t think she made an announcement per se.
Look at the section under "Book challenges."
How would you like it if some stranger came up to you and told you what books your child could or couldn't read? What right do you have to tell parents what books their children can or can't read?
More Accurate Title:
“Potter Author Rowling Equates people who don’t buy her books and give her money with Islamic Fundamentalists.”
Many non-christians or marginal christians avoid her books too. Not everyone wants to read a 40-something woman’s 700+ page long book about English teenagers who are learning witchcraft. Not everyone is going to find that naturally appealing.
She might as well have said “BUY MY BOOK DAMMIT!”
Mickey D just wants to sell more of his books.
LifeSiteNews shouldn’t have put up a misleading headline like that. In fact, why are they talking about this issue at all? I guess they think banning Harry Potter is more important than stopping abortion.
Who REALLY wrote those books?
LLS
I agree with your assessment.
Regarding the passion he felt for Gellert Grindelwald, I never regarded it as sexual in the least. I think they were talented wizards who felt a kindred bond because of their unusual ability. I read the books at face value and like you, did not get any homosexual message regarding Dumbledore. I thought early on, that he and McGonagall might have had some sort of understanding, but aside from that, I thought he was an ethereal, symbolic, asexual figure, almost Christ-like in his willingness to sacrifice himself for the common good.
I’m not big on undercurrents in fiction, or art for that matter; say what you mean if you have a “message”.
Actually, given the number of Christians - including me - who do NOT believe Harry Potter is the Devil, your suggested headline would be misleading and inaccurate.
The one on the article - telling you what Rowling says - is perfect.
Well, to be honest, I don’t doubt she received death threats. Who knows if it was a real Christian or someone claiming to be Christian but trying to smear Christians by sending a hateful email.
That, and consider that there are many people that read ‘death threat’ in where no explicit threat is made. People could send her a note with “Repent or Perish” “One day God is going to judge you too” in it and she could claim it’s a death threat.
What kind of “fantasies” does one find at church and synagogue these days?
From the article:
“In the interview Rowling claims to have received death threats from Christians opposed to her novels, calling Christian ‘fundamentalists’ “dangerous” and comparing them by inference to Islamic fundamentalists.”
If she did say this, she is a pinhead. If she didn’t, she should sue the author for libel.
It's a bit late for that. It's already happened.
Good point.
I don’t see ANY gay overtones in the books.
Dumbledore is a typical ascetic scholar, IMO.
He wanted knowledge, not Grindelwald.
Thank for for a good laugh before I got to work!
Professor Kirke in the Narnia books is the same sort of figure, I think.
Next thing you know, someone will be saying HE’S gay....
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