I am so happy. There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[juli17 at aol.com]

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CJ wrote:


My  reaction -- and I think it parallels yours -- is, (as someone here -- 
was  it Ceredwin? -- put it) -- the sacrifice of consistent 
characterization  for the sake of political correctness. It is not merely 
irrelevant  to the narrative, it is -- what's the proper word? -- 
outside the scope of  the character so far as he exists in the canon 
(thought obviously not so  far as he exists in JKR's imagination). And -- 
as another listie put it --  forcing us to re-evaluate a major character 
after the fact is, to use a  Britishism -- a bad show.


Julie:

All I can say is the revelation that Dumbledore was gay was pretty  
meaningless
to me when it comes to evaluating, or reevaluating, the character. I did  all 
that
reevaluating in DH, based on the revelations about his past and how he  
treated
various others around him at different times in his life. Pre-DH I  often 
argued that
the  God-like benevolent character we saw in the early books was  the *real*
Dumbledore, despite the bits of tarnish he accumulated in OotP and  HBP.
But in DH it turned out that Dumbledore really was quite flawed, quite  human,
and not particularly benevolent. 
 
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Point is, whether Dumbledore  was gay or
straight, right-handed or left-handed, wore boxers or briefs, practiced  
Christianity
or Paganism, none of it really reflects on the relative goodness of his  
character. 
Only his actions do so, IMO. 
 
So, not a "bad show" at all for me. Pretty much a no show in fact when it  
comes 
to any impact on my interpretation of Dumbledore's character.
 
I'd also add that Dumbledore seemed fairly asexual to me, and he  probably was
celibate in his later years. We never got a clue what he did or  who he did 
it with
(sexually speaking) in his more youthful days, so his  being straight or gay 
was 
neither particularly supported or unsupported.
 
Julie
 
 





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