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My two cents:
Making a major character in your novels gay as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" doesn't really work if you have to explain to readers months after the last book in the series ends that he actually was gay.
I mean, I guess it didn't really come up in the series, but as far as I got in the books there was no indication as to Dumbledore's sexuality at all. Not that the opportunity presented itself, but still.
I support broadening people's minds on this subject, but this wasn't as big a weapon for gay rights that J.K. Rowling might think it is.
Honestly, I'm totally neutral on gay Dumbledore. Now that it's out, I can see it, and it doesn't offend me, but if it was important, JKR, it should have gone in the frakking text to begin with. I guess the problem I'm having with it is that it's past time for her to be making proclamations about the details of the Potterverse now that she claims it's been put away.
ReplyDeleteIt was so obvious! His name is an anagram for "'Male bods rule, bud"!
ReplyDeleteLOL! How long did you work on that, Rich?
ReplyDeleteI read it somewhere else and stole it from them. I'm the Robin Williams of Blog comments!
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