Harry Potter Discussion (spoilers)

[Planet-man]

They're saying Bill Nighy is going to do it, actually.

He'd be decent, but Christopher Lee would be perfect.

 

[Random]

Guess who's gay.

 

[Planet-man]

Guess who's gay.

I.... I.... thought it would Daniel Radcliffe.

Oh, man.... I'm going to be bursting out laughing about this for days. It's just so random and yet so painfully logical.:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Taskmaster]

It is interesting how much sense this makes.

 

[Lynx]

I.... I.... thought it would Daniel Radcliffe.

Oh, man.... I'm going to be bursting out laughing about this for days. It's just so random and yet so painfully logical.:lol: :lol: :lol:

I was furious when I first heard. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't care that he's gay (Hell, like people have said, it does make some amount of sense), I'm just pissed that she's basically using it as both a publicity stunt to get her now finished book series some more attention and as a way to make the books more "edgy". If she had told us in the books that he was gay, fine. But now? Leave it up to the imagination, Rowling. The more you talk now, the more you ruin the good name of those books.

 

[ourchair]

Hermione looks like a man.

A very HOT man.

:rockon:

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

I was furious when I first heard. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't care that he's gay (Hell, like people have said, it does make some amount of sense), I'm just pissed that she's basically using it as both a publicity stunt to get her now finished book series some more attention and as a way to make the books more "edgy". If she had told us in the books that he was gay, fine. But now? Leave it up to the imagination, Rowling. The more you talk now, the more you ruin the good name of those books.

The implication I got is that she thought there would be an outcry from the books fan's if it was announced (and a doubling in the effort to ban it from libraries), so it never really got addressed in the series. But it was always intentional...

I think this makes the Dumbledore/Grindelwald dynamic make so much more sense.

 

[ourchair]

The implication I got is that she thought there would be an outcry from the books fan's if it was announced (and a doubling in the effort to ban it from libraries), so it never really got addressed in the series. But it was always intentional...

Same one I got here.

J. K. Rowling's a lot of things, but she's not a self-exploitiing publicity mongering hoo-ha.

 

[Lynx]

The implication I got is that she thought there would be an outcry from the books fan's if it was announced (and a doubling in the effort to ban it from libraries), so it never really got addressed in the series. But it was always intentional...

What's the difference between that and it being announced now? I've already seen a few fans, other than me, miffed about it and it is undoubtedly going to have more of an outcry from the religious right. It's implied through the Dumbledore/Grindlewald relationship, as you've said, so, if she wasn't going to announce it in the books. . .why not just leave it to the imagination? Or hell, if people really needed it spelled out, put it in the Encyclopedia and let people discover it on their own.

Doing it this way just reeks of publicity. And with her lawsuit against the Hogwarts castle replica builders, I'm beginning to lose faith in her.

 

[ProjectX2]

I always thought they were a bit close... but it doesn't really bother me.

Hermione looks like a man.

A very HOT man.

I'm not sure about the man bit, but yes, she is very nice.

 

[ourchair]

I always thought they were a bit close... but it doesn't really bother me.



I'm not sure about the man bit, but yes, she is very nice.

Paedophile.

 

[Planet-man]

The implication I got is that she thought there would be an outcry from the books fan's if it was announced (and a doubling in the effort to ban it from libraries), so it never really got addressed in the series. But it was always intentional...

I think this makes the Dumbledore/Grindelwald dynamic make so much more sense.

I agree, and I'm glad I didn't find out until after I'd finished the series because if she'd announced it before DH I would've thought of it like a huge spoiler. I would've immeadiately tied it to the Grindelwald plot and expected it to be a big reveal towards the end of the book itself, and then be confused and mad when it wasn't.

The only reason I'm really disappointed here is because I just lost one of my best examples to prove that wearing a purple shirt does not make you gay.

 

[ProjectX2]

Paedophile.

I think she is a couple of months older than me.

 

[moonmaster]

Guess who's gay.

Ha!

That's wonderful.










*writes gay Dumbledore/Harry fanfic*

The only reason I'm really disappointed here is because I just lost one of my best examples to prove that wearing a purple shirt does not make you gay.

 

[Planet-man]

At least I won the battle.

 

[Ultimate Houde]

Makes sense to me. This does explain several things in my opinion, and I suspected it anyways.

 

[ultimatedjf]

Tom Felton's (Draco Malfoy) reaction to the Dumbledore news.


and the tasteless youtube videos begin to surface... (Who writes songs like that?)

 

[DIrishB]

My fictional Gay-dar picked up on Dumbledore being homosexual in the first book. I think it has something to do with living only a couple hours north of Miami, and a few more north of Key West.

 

[Planet-man]

I gotta admit, it's weird thinking of Michael Gambon's Dumbledore as gay. In my head while reading I picture Dumbledore looking like a less-lined, more energetic version of Harris' Dumbledore, and I can picture him being gay I guess. But Gambon's Dumbledore is like some sort of high-class viking.

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

(Gambon is still absolutely the wrong choice for Dumbledore, this only furthers that in my mind)