J.K. Rowling Reveals 'Harry Potter' Character Dumbledore Is Gay

[Logan13]

J.K. Rowling Reveals 'Harry Potter' Character Dumbledore Is Gay
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303760,00.html

NEW YORK — Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall. After reading briefly from the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," she took questions from audience members.

She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."

"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.

She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."

Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Potter readers on fan sites and elsewhere on the Internet have speculated on the sexuality of Dumbledore, noting that he has no close relationship with women and a mysterious, troubled past. And explicit scenes with Dumbledore already have appeared in fan fiction.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore. A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.

Rowling, finishing a brief "Open Book Tour" of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

[Coop77]

The publisher must be freaking out. A lot of people aren't going to want their kids reading gay witchcraft books.

[Amorphic]

only in conservative america can the acknowlegement of a gay character in a fiction book be considered news. -yawn-

[DSM4Life]

only in conservative america can the acknowlegement of a gay character in a fiction book be considered news. --yawn--

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[Lexed]

dam Dumbledore is gay out of all the ppl I thought ron weasly was gay

[Lexed]

wonder if he uses his wand as a vibrator

[LawMan018]

J.K. Rowling Reveals 'Harry Potter' Character Dumbledore Is Gay
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303760,00.html

NEW YORK — Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall. After reading briefly from the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," she took questions from audience members.

She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."

"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.

She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."

Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Potter readers on fan sites and elsewhere on the Internet have speculated on the sexuality of Dumbledore, noting that he has no close relationship with women and a mysterious, troubled past. And explicit scenes with Dumbledore already have appeared in fan fiction.

Rowling told the audience that while working on the planned sixth Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," she spotted a reference in the script to a girl who once was of interest to Dumbledore. A note was duly passed to director David Yates, revealing the truth about her character.

Rowling, finishing a brief "Open Book Tour" of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

Why the hell would people question his sexuality? It's called getting a life people, lol...

[Red Ketchup]

Making a big deal of a FICTIONNAL CHARACTER in a book....

Wow... some people really have nothing better to do with their lives...

Red

[Tock]

Gee, I didn't know he had a town named after him . . .
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

'Ban Harry Potter or face more school shootings'

4th October 2006
Laura Mallory says the Harry Potter books promote evil

A woman who maintains that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to teach children witchcraft is pushing for the second time to have them banned from school libraries.





Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.
Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil - as she claims the Potter ones do - help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.
That would not happen if students instead read the Bible, Mallory said.
She added that the books were harmful to children who are unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
The children, she said, try to imitate Harry Potter and cast spells on classmates.
"They're not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids," Mallory said.
She argued that teachers do not assign other religious books like the Bible as student reading.
It was Mallory's second public campaign against the popular fiction series, after trying to get her son's elementary school to ban the books in August 2005.
Victoria Sweeny, an attorney representing the Gwinnett County Board of Education in Atlanta's eastern suburbs, which had ruled against her in May, said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban mainstays like "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."
"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.
Sweeny said parents, teachers and scholars have found them a good tool to stimulate children's imagination and encourage them to read.
The hearing officer presiding over the appeal will make a recommendation to the state board, which will then decide the case at its meeting in December.
Mallory is appealing after the Gwinnett County school board ruled in favour of the books. Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

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Youtubes:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mzVqO8enFXg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7Ds2FZp...20jk%20rowling

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1xHfR0MrO...20jk%20rowling





One christian voice of reason:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=955880aBO...20jk%20rowling

[shifty_git]

Gee, I didn't know he had a town named after him . . .
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

'Ban Harry Potter or face more school shootings'

4th October 2006
Laura Mallory says the Harry Potter books promote evil

A woman who maintains that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to teach children witchcraft is pushing for the second time to have them banned from school libraries.





Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.
Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil - as she claims the Potter ones do - help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.
That would not happen if students instead read the Bible, Mallory said.
She added that the books were harmful to children who are unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
The children, she said, try to imitate Harry Potter and cast spells on classmates.
"They're not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids," Mallory said.
She argued that teachers do not assign other religious books like the Bible as student reading.
It was Mallory's second public campaign against the popular fiction series, after trying to get her son's elementary school to ban the books in August 2005.
Victoria Sweeny, an attorney representing the Gwinnett County Board of Education in Atlanta's eastern suburbs, which had ruled against her in May, said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban mainstays like "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."
"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.
Sweeny said parents, teachers and scholars have found them a good tool to stimulate children's imagination and encourage them to read.
The hearing officer presiding over the appeal will make a recommendation to the state board, which will then decide the case at its meeting in December.
Mallory is appealing after the Gwinnett County school board ruled in favour of the books. Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

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Youtubes:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mzVqO8enFXg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7Ds2FZp...20jk%20rowling

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1xHfR0MrO...20jk%20rowling





One christian voice of reason:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=955880aBO...20jk%20rowling

so was jesus turning water in2 wine, and makin one loaf of bread in2 dozens, and walking on water not magic or some kind of whitch craft?

ooo coming back from the dead... thats a normal natural thing as well isnt it!

[Flagg]

So Dumbledor was gay, who cares?

The series (which I highly recomend to all) showed how Albus had no partners of such, I thought this was due to the fact that he was so powerful and so brilliant that he had no equal. But gay also explains this.

[Tock]

so was jesus turning water in2 wine, and makin one loaf of bread in2 dozens, and walking on water not magic or some kind of whitch craft?

ooo coming back from the dead... thats a normal natural thing as well isnt it!

Um, that stuff was fiction, just like Harry Potter. Nothing to get your undies tied up in knots . . .

[Amorphic]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15127464

Georgia mom seeks ban on Harry Potter

Mother of four claims the teen wizard is ‘evil,’ promotes witchcraft

Oct 4, 2006
ATLANTA - A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools.
Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction series is an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion.
Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."

"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.


In June, the county's library board eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. One board member said the move came after some residents objected to using taxpayer dollars to entertain readers who might be illegal immigrants.
Days later, the board reversed its decision amid accusations that the move was anti-Hispanic.

i can think of one evil person in that description, it isnt harry potter.

[Carlos_E]

only in conservative america can the acknowlegement of a gay character in a fiction book be considered news. -yawn-

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[RuhlFreak55]

sorry...harry potter rules.....lol who gives a shit if dumbledore was gay? and for the record......christian groups that denounce harry potter can seriously just all jump off a cliff.....a very high cliff......and hell lets use a bulldozer to push them off.....

[TexSavant]

sorry...harry potter rules.....lol who gives a shit if dumbledore was gay? and for the record......christian groups that denounce harry potter can seriously just all jump off a cliff.....a very high cliff......and hell lets use a bulldozer to push them off.....

If we were to just wave some Harry Potter books around and recruit Bill Clinton and a guy in a Tinkie-Winkie suit, we could likely corral and chase them off a cliff like the American Indians did with Bison/Buffalo. Everyone could drop trow and shoot their juice right where they can they can see us so they'll be extra scared....HOMOS AND LIBERALS AND 'ROIDS, OH MY!!!!

[Roidal]

If he's gay, there has to be a 2nd character that's gay too.

[Flagg]

If he's gay, there has to be a 2nd character that's gay too.

Wtf, no there doesn't! How do you rationalise that?