J.K. Rowling Defends Gay Dumbledore on Twitter

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J.K. Rowling Defends Gay Dumbledore on Twitter
Added by Alexandria Ingham on September 9, 2014.

J.K. Rowling defended her decision to make Dumbledore gay on Twitter in style, when an ex-fan started trolling her. Afterwards, she received praise from many other fans for the way she handled the situation.

After the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the author admitted that Dumbledore had been gay all along. While many fans were happy or just did not really care about the character’s sexuality, some people were deeply offended. One fan was so angry that he tweeted Rowling about it, criticising her for her decision. It took the man seven years to share his anger, but the author did not let that stop her from attacking back.

The Twitter user told the Harry Potter author that he stopped being a fan of the books because of the decision to tell people that Dumbledore did not have the expected sexuality for a headmaster of a school. He claimed that readers were blindsided with the news; news that most people took well and were proud of the author to choose to write in gay heroic character.

Rather than taking the route that many authors would by trying to appease the masses, she suggested that the reader follow Brian Souter, who publicly defended Section 2A of the Scottish Local Government Act. This section banned government from promoting homosexuality, including in schools. The whole act was repealed in 2000, so Souter did not get his way....

Read more at http://guardianlv.com/2014/09/j-k-rowling-defends-gay-dumbledore-on-twitter/#IZbtjp3zimyzuSZ2.99

[closeupready]

1. I had an argument about this on another board with Confucious'

contemporary incarnation.

He stated that once Rowling published the books, the characters were then actually independent of Rowling, and that no matter what she thought when creating them or what she intended, that the characters (and most importantly, their sexuality) then became entities about which anyone could opine, and further that even Rowling's opinion of her own characters became merely one of thousands and millions of equally important opinions about those characters.

Yes, the lengths to which homophobes will go to heterosexualize anyone, everyone, everything, every living creature ... these lengths seem endless sometimes.

[NuclearDem]

2. That person clearly doesn't understand how canon works.

Anything the author/director/creator says about a work or its world is gospel.

[Amimnoch]

3. Fine, so I guess the bible meets his same criteria?

The bible is now independent of the writers of the scripture? No matter what they thought when writing the bible, or what they intended, that the stories, and passages have become entities about which anyone can opine?

heh, you should throw that back at him and watch his head explode.