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Oct. 20th, 2007 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaRowling says Dumbledore is Gay!.
She says it here as well!.
Now all J.K.R. has to do is admit that the relationship between Tonks and Lupin is a sham and a cover up to their Gayness - Lavender Marriage anyone?
Now, it's not that I don't appreciate her being all forthright with this, I mean, it's really cool that the Master Mind and basic father figure to Hogwarts was gay and all, but revealing it almost four years after she killed him off and barely alluding to it in canon... it strikes me a little bit as fan service.
I mean the whole book was one big Heterosexuality festival! Bill and Fleur get married, Tonks and Lupin get married AND have a baby and die together, Harry and Ginny get together, Ron and Herminoe get together, fuck, we even discover that Snape's motivation to "reform" was his love to his childhood friend - BTW, I have serious issues with that, since it makes Snape to be shallow and ambivalent, two things which, IMO, contradict the cannon of all seven books, until his tale is revealed.
The Epilogue was sweet, but very saccharine and in a way self-indulgent and unnecessary, she didn't even bother to give up information about all the main characters. Where was Luna? And why did we have to discover in a chat on-line that Ginny had a sports career before becoming a journalist and a mother? Why is the information about Hermione's kick-ass job in the MLE only found on-line? And why isn't Snape's portrait mentioned in the book!?
But it's about the kiddies!
And the heteronormativty.
So yeah, it's all very nice that one of the main characters was gay in canon - I can't even fathom the amount of Dumbledore/Grindelwald slash that is going to spawn. But you know what would have been nice... if Crabbe and Goyle had been a couple, or if Thomas Dean and Seamus would have been a couple on the sidelines... or Parvati and Lavender, because it's not about the main characters being gay, it's about the fact that when you're a young teenager and an older one, you explore who you are, and an old man being gay and discovering this after he had died and it had absolutely no bearing on the sales of the book... well like I said, it feels like fan service.
It's good, but it feels like too little too late in that regard.
But who am I to talk, I'm just an extrapolating fan who likes slash and never really liked Dombledore - manipulative megalomaniac bastard - and no he was not as bad as Voldemort; Albus, unlike Tom, was not a bigoted sociopath.
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
She says it here as well!.
Now all J.K.R. has to do is admit that the relationship between Tonks and Lupin is a sham and a cover up to their Gayness - Lavender Marriage anyone?
Now, it's not that I don't appreciate her being all forthright with this, I mean, it's really cool that the Master Mind and basic father figure to Hogwarts was gay and all, but revealing it almost four years after she killed him off and barely alluding to it in canon... it strikes me a little bit as fan service.
I mean the whole book was one big Heterosexuality festival! Bill and Fleur get married, Tonks and Lupin get married AND have a baby and die together, Harry and Ginny get together, Ron and Herminoe get together, fuck, we even discover that Snape's motivation to "reform" was his love to his childhood friend - BTW, I have serious issues with that, since it makes Snape to be shallow and ambivalent, two things which, IMO, contradict the cannon of all seven books, until his tale is revealed.
The Epilogue was sweet, but very saccharine and in a way self-indulgent and unnecessary, she didn't even bother to give up information about all the main characters. Where was Luna? And why did we have to discover in a chat on-line that Ginny had a sports career before becoming a journalist and a mother? Why is the information about Hermione's kick-ass job in the MLE only found on-line? And why isn't Snape's portrait mentioned in the book!?
But it's about the kiddies!
And the heteronormativty.
So yeah, it's all very nice that one of the main characters was gay in canon - I can't even fathom the amount of Dumbledore/Grindelwald slash that is going to spawn. But you know what would have been nice... if Crabbe and Goyle had been a couple, or if Thomas Dean and Seamus would have been a couple on the sidelines... or Parvati and Lavender, because it's not about the main characters being gay, it's about the fact that when you're a young teenager and an older one, you explore who you are, and an old man being gay and discovering this after he had died and it had absolutely no bearing on the sales of the book... well like I said, it feels like fan service.
It's good, but it feels like too little too late in that regard.
But who am I to talk, I'm just an extrapolating fan who likes slash and never really liked Dombledore - manipulative megalomaniac bastard - and no he was not as bad as Voldemort; Albus, unlike Tom, was not a bigoted sociopath.
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
