RETURN OF LINKSPAM

[cleolinda]

Harry Potter is the Biggest Worldwide Debut Ever with $476M. That is to say, nearly half a billion dollars, blowing through the Eclipse midnight record, the New Moon opening day record, and the Dark Knight weekend record. From what I've seen of Comments on the Interwebs, Twilight fans and Batman fans are united in shouting YEAH WELL WAIT TILL OUR

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[cleolinda]

Yeah... people keep complaining that it's not in the books, but I was like... dude, it totally is. I read that the first time and I was like, wait? seriously? what? This was totally their summer of love, wasn't it?

If she'd come out and said he was gay after HBP, okay, that's one thing. After DH? I was only surprised that she actually announced it, not that he was.

[cleolinda]

I also come down on the side that it's important to have characters who turn out to be gay as just another facet of their personality, without it defining them in some stereotypical way. And I do feel like that facet was present in the Grindelwald back story and not just something she made up later, so.

[ppyajunebug]

I agree! I read that article this morning and I was like "...did we read the same books?" I thought it was completely awesome that JK Rowling came out and said that yes, he was gay. It brings a whole new, powerful side to his relationship with Grindelwald (officially, anyway) and how that whole story ended.

[wings_on_water]

I disagreed with MANY of their "not-so-great" points. MANY. Like you, I wondered if we were reading the same books, since I tended to interpret the situations they brought up in pretty much the opposite way from what they did. Heh.