Source:
EW.com
Posted on: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 17:48:15
Written By: Michael Dance
MichaelMDance@gmail.com
This may relate more to the book world than the movie world, but you're about to hear it from just about everywhere, so I'm jumping on the bandwagon. J.K. Rowling appeared at New York's Carnegie Hall last night for a reading and a Q&A session, and the highlight of the night was hard to miss: she outed one Albus Dumbledore.
EW.com got the direct quotes: "I always saw Dumbledore as gay. Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald.... Don't forget, falling in love can blind us. [He] was very drawn to this brilliant person. This was Dumbledore's tragedy."
Well, yeah, that kind of does make perfect sense, but I must confess while I was reading it I didn't get the (now seemingly obvious) subtext. The bigger question: will crazy people use this as yet another reason to try to ban Harry Potter? I hope not, but you can hear them now...first it sneakily draws kids away from God by promoting witchcraft, and then it tries to turn our children gay! (Luckily, most people missed Rowling's subsequent comments about Hermione's abortion. Just kidding.) |
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