No, I’m not bashing gays. I’m not bashing gay wizards either.
I am bashing writers who think having mysterious, questionably gay characters in children’s books does anything for plot or storyline whatsoever.
So Albus Dumbledore is gay. I don’t care, but I didn’t need to know that. Neither did anybody else really. It doesn’t do anything for the story except confuse it. This doesn’t fill in the blanks for me. Dumbldore being gay isn’t exactly the same as finding out how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader.
What is an official announcement by J.K. Rowling that Dumbledore is gay going to do for gay people? Or wizards for that matter? Will it make more people feel more comfortable about being gay because an imaginary wizard who is the head master of a school for witches has been finally outed? Will it open more doors for gay wizards in business?
I’m thinking no. To the contary, I think it actually reinforces the whole gay = fairy stereotype.
Now if Hagrad was gay, that’d be a different story.
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are there any black people in these books? any jews? any steamy romance scenes? JK Boring hasn’t given me a reason to buy one of these books yet.
She didn’t say he was gay to sell more books, or to make herself seem better for having a gay character. Someone asked her in an interview if Dumbledore ever had a girlfriend, and she just replied that he has not, he was gay.
End of story, Thank you.
BTW DBlock. There are black characters (Dean, Anglina) I don’t know of any Jewish ones, but there are some snogging (kissing) scenes in the later books. They are far from boring. The first few are a little tame and good for kids, the last 3 or 4 are quite dark and very good.
Sara on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm | Link