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Oct
23

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, Gellert Grindelwald

posted by Eli

Dumbledore shows the students the reason for his infatuation...
Dumbledore shows the students the
reason for his infatuation…
Dave (Surprised):
Ok, check this… Dumbledore is gay!

Fruity bugger.
 

Eli:
It seems that wasn’t the only post-story information she gave out, either… though the rest seems somewhat more mundane. I dunno, though. I tend to agree with the people quoted in another article I read who said that it seems a little odd that she’s mentioning this afterward, outside the context of the story. If it was important enough to reveal later, why not include it in the books?

The comments I read also seem to be related more to a “boyhood crush” than a life-long love.
 
Dave (Wry):
I never got the “gay” feel from him while I was reading the books. If anything I figured Snape was as gay as rainbow, but that suspicion never got to play out with “He-who-must-not-be-Cornholed.”

The whole thing strikes me in this way, if it was important it would have been in the book and since it’s not Rowling is just looking at ways to keep herself front and centre in the media; also, she’s a coward (”What if there’s backlash from around the world by anti-fagite governments/publishers and blah, blah, blah?”) for not trusting in her characters and the strength of her story to put it in there and thinking more about the “bottom-line” than anyone who has earned more than a billion dollars has any right.

Dropping that nugget of information now is as relevant as Tolkien rising from the grave to let us know that Sam and Frodo had a spit-roasting session with Gollum on the road to Mount Doom.
 
Eli (Surprised):
Yes, “cowardly” was one word that came to my mind as well.

And… I’m not sure why I want to know this, but… who was the roast?
 
Dave (Laugh):
Know how I know you’re gay?

It was Sam.
 
Eli (Laugh):
Know how I know you’re gay?

Because you knew that!
 


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