[HPforGrownups] Stereotypes- Q & A: (was: Re: I am so happy, There is a gay ...

[meann ortiz]

No: HPFGUIDX 178518

 bamf wrote:
Actually, she was asked if any of her characters were
gay. Not specifically about any one character. THAT'S
why I think she should have just left it alone. Unless
you and I read a different transcript about what went
on, the only thing the person asked was very general.


Meann:

Jo wasn't asked if any of the characters were gay.  She was asked if
Dumbledore had found love.  JKR explains the rationale behind the revelation
in her recent appearance in Toronto where she received an "Order of the
Forest" award.  She says:

"Ummm... because I was asked a very direct question at Carnegie Hall and the
question was, which I have never been asked before... do you... given that
one of the biggest themes in the books is love, did Albus Dumbledore ever
find love? And the girl who asked it, I have to say, prefaced it with these
wonderful statements about how the Harry Potter books have helped her be
more fully herself. She's a teenager. So I answered honestly. I suppose the
other half of that answer is that Dumbledore's ill-fated infatuation was a
key part of the plot of book 7."

The full transcript is here:
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/1022-torontopressconf.html
Leaky's transcript of the Carnegie Hall reading with the actual Q&A is here:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more

Hope that clears things up.

---*meann


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