[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Who is queer?

[Nightbreed]

I think the thing with Dumbledore though is that you only see him in the
position of headmaster. He doesn't really begin to open up to Harry until
HBP, and even then he's more a guide through the flashbacks and a narrator
not much of a character in and of himself. 

 

What I'm saying is, when would she have put even subtle inferences in, we
don't get to know Dumbledore personally and we only see him when Harry sees
him and from Harry's perspective. As a writer of several novels I couldn't
imagine how to subtly infer a person to be gay when seen through a child's
eyes?

 

I really think though, when she writes about him and Grindelwald those
inferences are definitely there.

 

md

 

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Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Who is queer?

 


That is a good question, I don't really know how Dumbledore would "read
gay". To me, that is what makes a subtle inference, subtle. It is exactly
what I was trying to say....not necessarily about me thinking about a
character being gay. I was more referring to the idea that what makes a book
personal to an individual reader is the things we read in between the lines,
not what is stated by an author. You referred physical descriptions, I'm
referring to the things a reader "reads" into a character/scene for whatever
reason. It's what makes the books personal to the reader. The subject at
hand just happened to be a characters sexuality. If we were talking about
Ron's organizational skills I would have used that as an example. Kwim ?

Kimberly





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