Dumbledore is Gay
After selling millions copies of Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling announced the beloved good wizard and Harry's mentor Dumbledore is gay. That is enough to anger plenty of self-righteous people around the globe. By and large, she received thousands of supports in the Harry Potter Website.
Rowling doesn't write beautiful sentences like Charles Dickens or Jane Austin, but her simple prose tells intriguing stories of many interesting characters. There are also quite a few very adult sides of Rowling hiden in her children's books. Dumbledore being gay will be one of the most talk-about for many years to come. Her shocking announcement is not going to change the minds of bigots. I admire her since I believe the stories she creates have done more to promote love, human kindness, friendship, loyality and tolerance in children's young minds than anything else in literature.
p.s. I am not a highbrow reader; I like easy stuffs. I never finish James Joyce's Ulysses that my ex-girlfriend gave me years ago and am still wonder if that is part of the reason she left me.
posted by Keith @ 12:06 AM
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2 Comments:
Keith: It's quite a fuss here in Canada as well. I wonder how the anti-gay parents are going to tell their children, after years of buying the latter Harry Potter books and movies. I like Rowling's response, something like: If I had known this (the gay issue) would generate so much interest, I would have told you (the readers) long time ago more about Dumbledore. But again, if she had done that, her books might have been boycotted by the aforementioned parents.
ps: Simplicity is also a form of art (at least that's my excuse as a "simpleton" :)
Haricot,
Prejudice is such a evil and human thing. It seems so obvious we should not judge a person by the color of skin, or gender, or sexual orientation, or age, or mannerism, but we all do in certain degree. As I notice some of my highschool and college friends turn more prejudice as they get older, I began to realize it is natural for human to be prejudice, as much as we are naturally selfish, fair, compassion and many other good or bad stuffs. We choose one way or the other along our lives, and we gradually became the kind of person we chose...Feeling philosophical today :-)
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