[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR messed up........ no/yes.

[Pamela Rosen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178372

Bunny wrote:


<Snip>  This series started as a children's storywhich caught on with adults and I thoroughly enjoyed the many years we spent discussing and debating it and the anguish of waiting for the next book. I fully intended re-reading the books many more times and reading them to my grandchildren.  However, to me, this has put a completely different complextion on the series and I don't think I'll be able to open the books again.  I'll be imagining
homosexual connotations in everything Dumbledore says or does something.<Snip>

Pam says:

I was going to stay out of this, but I can't keep my fingers shut anymore.  Bunny, did you ever read Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"? It's a classic book and it's taught to 7th graders (12 year olds) at my son's school.  The main character, Tom Joad, is gay.  It's not in the book, there's no mention of it anywhere in the text, but Tom Joad never has any relationships with women in the book, and I just decided he must be gay.  Sorry to have ruined such a classic book for you, and now because I just imagined that Tom Joad is gay, I guess you'll never read it. And certainly 12 year olds shouldn't read it.  Maybe Steinbeck thought so too, but he didn't say anything.

Do you see my point?  Bunny, you're entitled to your opinion, but can you remember one thing? Dumbledore can be gay or not. You decide, because A) it's not actually IN the books, and B) Dumbledore is FICTIONAL.  

If you decide not to re-read the series, please give your books to some school or underpriviledged child who will find joy and wonder in them and will not be bothered in the slightest by something someone said in the media last week.

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