| Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
| dumbledore is gay |
So I came home from my Grandma's, to be greeted by several MSN windows flashing on my laptop (which I had left on, because I was downloading Season 4 episodes of Grey's Anatomy into my hard drive).
One of them was from Gerard, who sent me this link to yahoo news. The first thing that came to my mind after I read it was 'what the heck? is this real?'.
Apparently, JK Rowling announced at the closing event of her US book tour, which was a book read and QnA session at Carnegie Hall, that Albus Dumbledore was gay. I really thought the yahoo link was a hoax, so I went to get confirmation by visiting 4 of my favourite(and highly reliable) Harry Potter news/fansites - and lo and behold, all 4 of them carried the same story as well.
So there you have it. Dumbledore is gay.
That explains quite alot of things really.
I'm honestly... quite shocked that she'll drop this bombshell, like right now. It feels like she just came up with this random juicy piece of information to get people to keep talking and speculating about her books again - but as one of her most die-hard, fanatical, loyal fans out there, I shall give her the benefit of the doubt and just accept that it happened not because she was out to garner attention, but because it was a genuine piece of background character information that she had lived with over the years.
And felt that it was time, post Deathly Hallows, to reveal to her readers right now.
I can't help but wonder how parents and children who are reading the books would react to this news though. I have no doubt how those Christian groups who hate the books would react, but I'm just more worried about the parents' reactions.
Knowing how overprotective some parents can be, they'll be launching ban-harry-potter petitions and organising book burning sessions right now. Which is ridiculous, but then, behavior expected from those crazy parents out there.
But like seriously. Wow. Dumbledore gay? That's really really weird and disturbing because I seriously seriously seriously can't imagine Dumbledore frolicking in bed with Gellert Grindelwald. Its too troubling for my mind - 2 really old men having, erm fun. Its amazing they both don't die from heart attacks or something.
I never thought she'll actually announce that any character was gay, let alone someone as well loved as Dumbledore! But hey, gay though he may be, he's still the most powerful wizard of his age (except Voldemort of course!) and you have to give him credit for being one of the most brilliant wizards who ever lived.
Oh well, she created this world. If she says Harry's transsexual, Harry's transsexual. So really. She says Albus Dumbledore's gay, and I'm not going to argue with her over that.Labels: harry potter |
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