JKR messed up........ no/yes.

[Carol]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bunny" <bunnyc at ...> wrote:
> I for one am very very disappointed with Rowling 'outing'
> Dumbledore. <snip> 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 complexion 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>


Carol:
I think that you should enjoy and reread them. JKR didn't say that
Dumbledore IS gay. She said when she was writing it, she pictured him
as being gay, which was her own thoughts of him, not anyone else's.
There's no where in the books that even hint to that. It's just a
ploy. I'm sure she was joking overall, and everyone is making a big
deal out of it. It's everyone else constantly bringing it up and
saying he is gay. He is only what YOU want him to be. As a writer,
JKR plants notions, it's up to you to take them where you want them.
The books themselves do NOT say or hint he is gay and JK did NOT say
he IS gay, only that SHE pictured him that way. These are just books
and a story after all. Dumbledore is not a real person, so the books
should just be read for entertainment, enjoyment, not taken like it
is completely real. If YOU don't want him to be gay, then he isn't.

Carol