Dumbledore is Gay
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So on October 19, 2007, JK Rowling does a reading of her somewhat famous book series in Carnegie Hall and has a little Q&A afterwards. During this, she happens to mentions that the wise old mentor headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
Some people are happy. Some are amused.
Others are neither.
Whether JKR's great crime here was making one of her characters gay, or cowardly waiting until the books had sold millions of copies to out a character that fulfills all the stereotypes anyway by being old and dead (and not middle-aged and dead) is currently being debated. Everywhere. Including CNN. Is it the promised Potterdämmerung, its hour come round at last?
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Links
- The Wanks:
- October 19: Fandom_Lounge announcement
- Clairvoyantwank pre-Wank Report
- October 20: The Wank Report
- October 23: FPB's contribution
- October 27: Hissy fit by a mod deprives 50,000 Snape fans of a place to wank
- The Funny:
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Quotes
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Wankers
- From The Leaky Cauldron[1] (some comments appear to have been deleted):
- "Earlier some one commented that no one deserves to be mistreated or harassed because of their sexual orientation – this is absolutely true and THAT could have been in the series. But making the greatest wizard that ever lived gay doesn’t say that – it says 'Hey kids, you should be gay too!'" (inspiring an icon by scatterheart)
- "Based on her writing, the kind of attraction Dumbledore felt towards Grindelwald was not of the gay nature."
- "i think many bisexual people choose homogeneous relationships just for the attention anyway"
- From elsewhere:
- "To me, declaring a beloved character a sodomite, right after the conclusion of a kid's series, is akin to mental molestation of children." - Syrena upon deleting a Severus Snape community with 50,000 members
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Wankas
- "I love my dead gay headmaster." - many people, via Heathers, inspiring many icons
- "'Harry, please be sure to kill Voldemort while you're out. Oh, and by the way, I'm gay. ...Lemon drop?'" - chaimonkey
- "I bet JKR went over to FandomWank and read the scandal about HP fans complaining about the lack of gay characters in her books, then decided to be politically correct and make Dumbledore gay.
HEY GUYS. HEY HEY GUYS. Do you realize what this means? WE MADE DUMBLEDORE GAY.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm totally willing to take credit for this." - ru_debega on a comment from TLC, inspiring this icon - "At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. Voldemort... was homophobic." - one of caito's many quotes
- "I want JK to say Dumbledore and Grindelwald rode on a hippogriff together." - mochibuni
- "Clearly the only way JKR will be able to make up for not mentioning this oh-so-important-to-the-plot fact in the books is to get working on Book 8, Harry Potter and His Thoughts on Yaoi." - ahiru
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