On almost every website and blog I read, the news is out. Dumbledore is gay!
My response: Who cares?
I'd provide a link to the news, but what is the point? Most likely anyone reading this blog has already seen it on the news.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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Well cool for him. I'm certainly not shocked or anything, I understand the author outed him after one of the film producers tried to add a "Dumbledore's lost love" subplot.
I have no problems whatsoever with gay wizards but I have a major problem with movies throwing in arbitrary "this is the trauma that explains this character's actions" scenes. It's contrived, it's simplistic, and Freud's dead. Nobody wants to see a complex character reduced to a single "aha, so that was the incident that warped him for life!" explanation. Lazy storytelling.
EasterDurni | 10.22.07 - 1:18 pm | #
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I mean, what difference does it make? This is about a fictional character that never even hints at having a sexual relationship in the series. Even if he was gay it didn't have an impact in the story.
Some people just take their books too seriously.
Kenshu Ani | Homepage | 10.22.07 - 2:23 pm | #
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I found an opinion piece on this subject that reflects my thoughts, just more elegantly stated.
J.K. Rowling Reveals Dumbledore is Gay
"Should Dumbledore's sexual orientation have been in the books? I don't know...I kind of like that it will just be accepted fact. If it had been written into the books, it would have been made a major focus of the books. Not in the books themselves but in coverage of them. But instead it's just an aside. Another fact about a friend we've known for years. It doesn't change his role in the books or the person that he was. We merely have some more insight to his life.
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Dumbledore's value as a character and a role model doesn't center on his sexuality, but in what he taught us about love and friendship."
Kenshu Ani | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 3:38 pm | #
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