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Originally Posted by Millie  I've never read Orson Scott Card, and while I know of him, I know very little about him. Regardless, I'd like to chime in with my agreement on the whole "Dumbledore was gay? WTF?" criticism.
The whole Dumbledore-being-gay thing was a total afterthought that Rowling tacked onto the series after it was already finished. She'd sold tons of books, wrapped up her series, amassed her billion-dollar fortune, and had nothing to lose -- so she decided she'd try to add some "progressive" credibility to her series in retrospect. It was a cheap, calculated, after-the-fact publicity stunt. |
I'd like to just put forth that it isn't necessarily true that Dumbledore being gay was an afterthought for her. She may very well have decided upon this at some point during the course of her writing, though I HIGHLY doubt that she decided upon this while penning the first novel as an unemployed single mother. Even granting this though, I want to echo the sentiment of Millie and others: if you're not brave enough to put it in the book, shut the living fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. If you want to go to your grave
knowing Dumbledore was gay, great. But if you're not going to put it in a book, leave it to the imagination of your fans and shut the goddamn fuck up. Bitch.