Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Dumbledore is Gay?

As a huge fan of all seven Harry Potter books I have to say that I wasn't at all bothered by the recent coming out of the character of Albus Dumbledore. I read it and I wasn't sure at first if the paper was talking about the actor or the character, but as I read further it was the fictional character that was outed by the creator of the revolutionary series herself.

I have read all of the Harry Potter books several times, including this summer to freshen up for the seventh book, so all of the stories are pretty fresh in my mind. I keep trying to think of hints and clues that J.K. Rowling left behind, but none stood out. The only thing that I could think of is that in the part of the seventh book when reporter Rita Skeeter wrote a book called "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore" when she mentioned that Dumbledore and another powerful wizard Gillert Grindelwald became close friends for a few months until they had a disagreement about what they would do to change the wizarding world and they never saw eachother again until Dumbledore defeated him years later. But even this part of the book wasn't an obvious clue, the only reason why I thought of it was because that is what the paper said.

J.K. Rowling didn't have Dumbledore prancing around with a pink wand trying to suduce Harry. He was a little busy trying to keep Voldemort, oh sorry, You Know Who, from killing all non-pure wizards and gaining domination over the wizarding world. He didn't make up all of these things about the prophecy and how Harry was the "Chosen One" just because he wanted to get a little alone time with him. He was trying to protect him from the dark lord.

It is crazy to think that priest would pull these books and movies from their libraries just because Dumbledore happens to be gay. Let me say again that he didn't say anything about his sexuality in the book, the only reason why we know he is is because of the author. Priests of all people shouldn't be judging others about their sexuality when there is major corruption going on in the church, but that is a different topic for a different day. What would Carlson think about this?

1 comment:

Dr. Lesley Bogad said...

Excellent post! SO glad you included your thoughts on this!

LB :)