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Sponsor |  konradc | Oct 22, 2007 12:37pm | Uhm, what do you think about that?
cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10/20/harry.potter.ap/ [cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10/20/harry.potter.ap/]
Rowling ...
My truthful answer to you...I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.
Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad wizard he defeated long ago], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.
Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, "I knew a girl once, whose hair..." I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!"
From: observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2196020,00.html [observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2196020,00.html] |
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|  qthews | Oct 22, 2007 1:11pm | "Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction." I fully agree with her ;-).
Well, i always thought around the lines of a buddist/zen/shaolin/Unseen University chastity for Dumbledore. Maybe the two important women in Dumbledore's life (you know them if you have read the seventh book) are even the only ones he had really known (were male and female more separated when he was a studente than in James's and Harry's school years ? Had young Albus spent all his awake time in the library ?).
And then, after that disastrous love he never tried again ? |
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Sponsor | | konradc | Oct 22, 2007 1:35pm | "Oh, my god, the fan fiction" ... I think this an exclamation more than a statement. Kinda confusing the way CNN quoted it.
Dumbledore is gay ... it's real, she said that in the quote from The Guardian. |
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| | qthews | Oct 22, 2007 1:43pm | Yes, yes, i agree with her that fanfiction would go wild with this.
I'm not saying that it is a fanfiction idea. |
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Sponsor | | konradc | Oct 22, 2007 1:45pm | | 4: sorry, I wasn't sure which way you meant ... I admit I was fishing :) |
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| | qthews | Oct 22, 2007 1:58pm | I'm just starting to imagine the hundred hours (and the blood) that will be spent by fans debating things trying to find evidence for or against in the seven books.
Just think about J.K. Rowling shaling her head reading an howler email (some kilometers long too) that try to explain her why that couldn't be :-) |
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Sponsor | | konradc | Oct 22, 2007 2:24pm | | haha, indeed! Just when you think the books is over ... I wonder how many more gems JK has. |
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|  |  3115623 | Apr 20, 10:55am | | I can't believe how young Dumbledore actually was...I always thought that he had been a billion years old or something. |
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| | qthews | Apr 20, 1:46pm | Do you need something maybe even more shocking... think about a young (and maybe even gossiping) Minerva,,, or even worse... a young Filch :-)
Making us acknowledge that Albus was once young and have emotions (sometimes he seemed a little detached) is one of the good things of book 7. |
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