JKR messed up

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 178343

---  "mandorino222" <mandorino222 at ...> wrote:
>
> However you feel about homosexuality, it is naive to ignore the fact
> that JKR has definitely damaged the long-term viability of this 
> series.   ...

bboyminn:

I'm going to have to agree with the others, Dumbledore being gay is 
merely an interesting 'outside the story' background tidbit. It has
nothing to do with the story at all. As I said, we don't see
Dumbledore flouncing around and camping it up.

Dumbledore being gay has no more to do with this series than Walt
Whitman being gay has to do with poetry, or Da Vinci being gay has
anything to do with artwork, or Hans Christian Anderson being gay has
to do with fairy tales. It is an interesting and curious bit of
information, but not really relevant to the art or story itself. 

If there is anyone in the story that is clearly gay (Slash fiction
aside) it is Professor Grubbly-Plank. I means everything about her
just screams 'dyke'. Yet, despite her presence and presentation in the
story, no one cares because the story is not about her. She is nothing
more than some colorful background scenery. 

Once again, I want to point out exactly what JKR said. 

"I always thought of Dumbledore as gay."

I don't see that as flat out saying that Dumbledore is gay. It is more
like she is speaking of a person she met or someone she knows. She is
not saying I creates him this way, she is saying this is just a side
bit of preception that has nothing to do with the Dumbledore we see in
daily life (meaning, in the story). 

I might say of someone I work with or know that 'I always thought of
/him/ as gay', but that is irrelevant and immaterial to our working or
personal relationship. It's just my perception. 

As I said before, characters take on a life and personality of their
own. An author doesn't so much invent them as discover them, and
merely chronicle that discovery.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn