I am sitting here and surfing the net. A friend of mine, (BIG SEMPER FI to JIM!), alert me to a news item in Yahoo news. And here it is:
If you read it, then here's the main point I will make: I have read ALL of Harry Potter's books. While it is all about Magic, THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT ALBUS DUMBLEDORE BEING GAY!
JR Rowleg is so wrong. If she wanted to write about something of a sexual nature of Harry Potter being alone at longer times with Albus Dumbledore, then she should have written that. But, no. I sense that Harry looks up to Albus Dumbledore as a Grandfatherly figure that takes on the parenting job for Harry's dead parents. Despite the Albus Dumbledore's death in book 6 (yes, folks. if you haven't read it.. SNAPE KILLS ALBUS DUMBLEDORE!) Harry still looks up to Dumbledore in the picture frame.
There is nothing of a sexual nature of it. But if it was, JR Rowleg's books would not have the smash hit success it enjoys today if Albus Dumbledore was pictured as a pedophile. That is an adult having sex with young kids.
We live in a concern filled world. We have people trying to control certain people from having sex with young kids. This latest news would put a downer on the Harry Potter sales. It would even give the CHRISTIAN RIGHTS groups a chance to attack the Harry Potter series and call it "CHILD PORN and GAYISM". I would be afraid of that if I was a newbie then to the Harry Potter series then.
I hope JR Rowleg reconsiders her statements. Albus Dumbledore is a Grandfather. That's how I picture him. That how I feel him. Powerful as he is.. even in death, he has respect. But whatever you think it is.. don't ever think he's gay because he's not. He is just a lone wizard set in his ways.
Semper FI Albus Dumbledore.
5 comments:
I had to read yr post several times before I could make sense of what you are trying to say.
First up, so there is no indication that Albus Dumbledore is Gay..so what? How can JR Rowleg be wrong when she wrote the stories?
So the Wizard is a grandfatherly figure, it doesn't mean he is not Gay. We do grow old too you know, and quite capable of parenting Thank you very much.
Then you go on to connect pedohilia with being Gay. What the hell has pedophilia got to do with being Gay?
"....don't ever think he's gay because he's not. He is just a lone wizard set in his ways.." You didn't write the book, JR Rowling did. So if she says he is Gay, he is Gay.
You are betraying your own prejudices in this post, which I take to be homophobic. Quite so. If the Wizard had a wife or past love afair with a woman, you wouldn't be writing this peice, or even linking pedophilia with heterosexuality [where most of it occurs btw].
As it is, it is homophobic piece of tosh!
Umm, doesn't gay mean pedophile? JK Rowling probably wants to add some spice to her story. Its "her" story and whatever she wants to do with the Harry Potter's revealing. Yeah you are right about Albus, gay isn't in the picture.
JK Rowling wrote those books full of hidden messages, actually it reflects to the modern society's behavior/attitude. However, I think gay situation that she want to bring up so her teaching to youth that anyone could be gay or whatever. Reduce hate crime, prejudice, and oppression that often happen among with younger age.
Its just a story, stick to it :-P BTW good post!
Jbaldridge:
I didn't mean that Gay = pedophile. But what I did wanted to say that inserting a Gay character into a Childern's story of magic makes an uneasy feeling.
I like to think that Dumbledore had a lot of respect for a wizard he battled of and regrets that he defeated him.
Radio666fm: FYI.. I'm not againt gay people. I have experienced being straight, experienced being BI-sexual, and experienced being gay. So I'm not discriminating anyone.
The only point I want to make is I hate hearing how adults force kids to have sex with them while kids are still in the innocent world of their life. If an adult (gay or straight) takes a kid's first taste of sex from them before they understand about it, they give a kid a problem and kids have no way of understanding it.
That's why I felt of J.R. Rowleg is so wrong of writing Dumbledore as a gay character. I rather have albus dumbledore being a respectful grandfather wizard with a past that he would rather leave it known to himself, but unknown to others.
If J.R. Rowleg wants to put something of a gay type story, she could have put it as "Harry and Ron having a tender-filled love moment in bed before the other students came up for bed". That would have sufficed as Teens exploring gay sex.
We could have a explosive discussion here.. but I don't think we need that. But again, I rather leave harry postter's story the way it is. :-)
first, I would like to reitearte that gay people are not pedophiles any more than heterosexuals or necrophiles for a more far off example, sometimes it coincides, but usualy not.
now to the point: What, I belive, Rawling was aiming for was *subtely* hinting that gays are all around us, however that doesnt mean you should insert a plug in your ass or walk in pairs back to back- they are not out to get you, they are in fact *exactly* like normal people... just gay.
There is offcourse the question of slash-fiction, but that was probably written before she announced he was gay. hell, it would have been written even if he was with a new girl in every book!
Question: What does hearing about adults forcing kids to have sex with them have anything to do with this? She didn't say Dumbledore was sleeping with Harry, in fact, it seems as if though the only romantic relationship he had was with Grindlewald.
That was many years ago, and now he's an old man, an advisor. How is he any less grandfatherly because he likes guys? Not to mention, he did leave it known to himself and unknown to others, he never told anyone. Rowling revealed it outside the books, and it's hinted that Skeeter knew about it, not from him but from someone in his past.
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