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Offline Neko_Chan

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JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« on: October 20, 2007, 11:09:19 am »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7050000/newsid_7054000/7054074.stm


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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2007, 04:38:54 pm »
Were sales slipping? Why bother mentioning that now, when no further Harry Potter books are coming out, and Dumbledore is dead? His sexuality is now moot. Did she feel an overwhelming desire to push the buttons of religious fundamentalists?

I wonder when it was decided to make Dumbledore gay?
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2007, 08:51:21 pm »
I was definetely not expecting that O_O
Like I'm okay with it and all that but...seriously who had any idea?
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2007, 03:16:39 am »
Yeah, didn't see that coming at all either.
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2007, 08:17:32 am »
Well, no more Harry Potter books are coming out is what I remember hearing.  Does this mean that there won't ever be any more books set in that universe?  I find that pretty unlikely given how popular the series is.
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2007, 09:37:38 pm »
Don't forget her Harry Potter encyclopedia J.K Rowling is going to release. With all the charatcers in it with their past life info and life after the seventh book.


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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2007, 05:02:58 pm »
Were sales slipping? Why bother mentioning that now, when no further Harry Potter books are coming out, and Dumbledore is dead? His sexuality is now moot. Did she feel an overwhelming desire to push the buttons of religious fundamentalists?

I wonder when it was decided to make Dumbledore gay?

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She decided it when she started working on book 6. She didn't hold a press conference to let people know, she just had to change some things in the draft for the 6th movie screenplay that made people ask her specifically about it. She was able to tell now because the books are done. She didn't bring it up before because it would've distracted from the story she wanted to tell.

Dumbledore being gay makes this a lot closer to canon.
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2007, 06:10:11 pm »
True, plus the one other big question is: So what if he is gay? Does that make him any less the professor that we knew? No. so personally I don't see what the big deal is.
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Re: JKR Announces that Dumbledore is Gay
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2007, 03:03:12 pm »
This is about as informative as being told the Pillsbury Boy is a virgin  :-\