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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: JK Rowling says wizard Dumbledore is gay |
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071020/entertainment/entertainment_rowling_col
Now the whack-job Christian nutosphere will really have something to scream and cry about!
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling has outed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, telling fans in New York that the wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay.
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Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected -- that she "always thought Dumbledore was gay," reported entertainment Web site E! Online.
Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard Gellert Grindelwald but when Grindelwald turned out to be more interested in the dark arts than good, Dumbledore was "terribly let down" and went on to destroy his rival.
That love, she said, was Dumbledore's "great tragedy."
"Falling in love can blind us to an extent," she said.
The audience reportedly fell silent after the admission -- then erupted into applause.
Rowling, 42, said if she had known that would be the response, she would have revealed her thoughts on Dumbledore earlier.
Fans on the top Potter fan site TheLeakyCauldron.org (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org) were divided on the news, some uncertain Rowling wasn't going to backtrack on the announcement, others saying it was unnecessary, and some welcoming the extra information on Dumbledore.
"This is even more awesome because it adds another layer to Dumbledore's character, which is already so rich and complicated. I hope he got over Grindlevald (sic) and fell in love again," wrote Amanda.
Rowling said she had read through a script for the movie adaptation of the sixth book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" over it.
Rowling, a mother of three, is now estimated to be worth $1.12 billion, making her the first dollar-billionaire author.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" -- the seventh and final book in the boy wizard series -- became the fastest-selling book in history when it was released in July.
More than 11 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours in the United States and Britain. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, well the whole Harry Potter thing is pretty much gay. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, I posted about this in the off-topic forum. I guess I wasn't sure if a fictional character's life counted as a current event. Anyway, the question is: was he born that way, or is there a spell that was cast on him that turned him. Who can think of the coolest rowling-esque spell that would change one's sexual orientation. |
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Rae
Joined: 10 Oct 2007
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| Dolores Umbridge seduced him in his junior years by magically appearing in her birthday suit on the night of his birthday. Even after he successfully deleted that memory out of his mind, he he turned gay. |
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Julius
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| * Good way to give a nudge to your flagging book sales: announce that "one of your characters is gay". |
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Mr Freeze
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Rowling is just trying to sell more copies now that the initial surge has worn down. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr Freeze wrote: |
| Rowling is just trying to sell more copies now that the initial surge has worn down. |
Christians will be happy to buy new copies to burn them. |
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