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[selene_13]

So, every newspaper is picking up the "Dumbledore (here 'Perkamentus') revealed as gay!". Big news, people... *raises eyebrow*

*sigh* It might have been more, you know, progressive, if JKR had mentioned it in the actual book. But, noooo, she'll keep her books nice and clean for kiddy/conservative market (why create a controversy for bigoted people to fall over), then reveals characters' sexual identities after all is said and done and everyone and their dog has spent their money on the book.

Lame.

If she was really okay with it all, then why didn't the text simply tell us that DD had a crush on Grindelwald and was disappointed instead of being just best friends. I bet if Grindelwald had been a Grindelwanda it would've been mentioned. It could've been an easy line to throw to Harry, who could have just reacted normally to such plain news.

And when she was asked if DD had a great love of his life, she could have just randomly said that he had a partner for thirty years but he died of the fibbertigibblets when he was 102 or something instead of making "a statement" about it.

It feels like she's going "oooh, look at how accepting and open-minded I am" now that it's safe since the series is finished and it can't be canon anymore. Just... really lame.

She should have just had a student same-sex couple randomly flit by in text or outed Sirius and Remus or something. ;)

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[darkirony.livejournal.com]

To be fair, she hasn't waited SO long that it can't be included in the next movie(s)... THAT should be interesting.

But, I wish too that if tolerance was the goal, we needed someone(s) to flit through, as you said.

And, yes, frighteningly big news. Guess war, pestilence, and plague were a little slow yesterday.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

I bet if Grindelwald had been a Grindelwanda it would've been mentioned.

Darn, I like that; I must use that if I post any more about this furore! A solid romantic link between Dumbledore and Grindelwanda would have made the whole thing more tragic, indeed!

I don't think JKR is aggressively liberal, but certainly there was a decision somewhere that the commercial success of the book and minimisation of damage control outweighed any motivation to be politically correct and include a homosexual Dumbledore. Or the need for same to be in the story for plot/characterisation purposes.

It feels like she's going "oooh, look at how accepting and open-minded I am"

It seems a little bit like that, and I can't help but feel myself that she's been quite disingenuous in feigning 'surprise' at the ovation and acclaim she's received for outing Dumbledore, but I gather that it's mainly her loud sycophant media buddies - Emmerson, Melissa, etc, of the web sites - that are really pushing the 'preaching tolerance' wheelbarrow.

[darynthe.livejournal.com]

This whole deals ticks me the wrong way. Maybe because I am sick and so have low tolerance to BS than normally. She should just STFU already about the series.

And especially what I heard her say that any grown up reading it would have realized DD was in love with G.. WTF? We have plenty, exponentially more canon for HH and it never was. Why would then I read subtext for this? Grrr.