Not really a surprise...
Oct. 20th, 2007 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For those of you who haven't heard, Rowling confirms Dumbledore was gay.
Huh. I'm pleased, but a little surprised - given how pointedly it was not confirmed in the books, I didn't expect her to do so in an interview either.
As I commented to
vasher earlier, JKR frustrates me. She has all this incredibly backstory, and this amazing imagination, and yet sometimes I feel she fails to actually get it in the text. Her comments about 'Dumbledore's great tradegy' - I want to *read* about that, not hear it in an interview. It's the ultimate 'telling, not showing'. (And yeah, I know it really is outside the scope of the books, but I still want it.) *sigh*
Anyway. Now the ultra-conservative Christians have another reason to hate the books :)
Huh. I'm pleased, but a little surprised - given how pointedly it was not confirmed in the books, I didn't expect her to do so in an interview either.
As I commented to
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Anyway. Now the ultra-conservative Christians have another reason to hate the books :)
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Date: 2007-10-20 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-20 11:35 pm (UTC)Other queer characters - Sirius and Remus, of course :)
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Date: 2007-10-20 04:54 pm (UTC)Anyways, somebody needs to ask her who else swings a little left of right.
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Date: 2007-10-20 11:43 pm (UTC)I have mixed feelings about the encyclopedia - it will be cool, unless I don't like most of what's in there :) Still, I take non-book sources as quasi-canon at best, so I have no trouble ignoring it when required :)
somebody needs to ask her who else swings a little left of right.
I'm always going to have a soft spot for Sirius and Remus. Partly because it's the easiest way for me to find fics with my two favourite characters in it :)
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Date: 2007-10-21 06:22 am (UTC)I wouldn't be surprised if the sixth or seventh movie will allude to Albus and Grindelwald any more pointedly. I could have lots of fun pointing at the screen with "haha, I don't remember reading this!" I'd enjoy getting additional scenes that weren't in the books (provided they don't spit in the face of canon).
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Date: 2007-10-21 06:36 am (UTC)I wouldn't be surprised if the sixth or seventh movie will allude to Albus and Grindelwald any more pointedly.
I'll be interested if they do the scene that was being written (Dumbledore reminiscing about a girl) with a guy instead... then I will be impressed.