{"id":12213,"date":"2007-10-21T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/21\/thank-heavens-rita-skeeter-didnt-get-hold-of-this.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:56:27","slug":"thank_heavens_rita_skeete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/thank_heavens_rita_skeete.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank heavens Rita Skeeter didn’t get hold of this"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headlines blare!  “Albus Dumbledore was gay<\/a>!”<\/p>\n

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Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n

After reading briefly from the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” she took questions from audience members.<\/p>\n

She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds “true love.”<\/p>\n

“Dumbledore is gay,” the author responded to gasps and applause.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My first reaction was a “Huh?” I mean, not as a tru-fan of the series but as someone who’s read all the books, I never had any particular clue that he was gay.  Nor, for that matter, that he was straight.  Evidently, though (read the AP story if you want more details), some of the “Dumbledore’s past” plot elements Rowling gave out in the final novel or two tie into this, and she actually had to make a correction of some bits that were being inserted into the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince <\/em>movie.<\/p>\n

It’s nothing particularly shocking, upon consideration (hell, for all I know, half the faculty at Hogwarts is gay, for all we know of their love lives — no doubt there’s plenty of slash fiction out there on the Internet to support the hypothesis).  Little question, though, that the same folks who criticized the books for their witchcraft will find further to criticize in this (I can just hear the bile and sniggering now).<\/p>\n

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(via Ginny<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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