Comments | beckaandzac: If You Were Gay, I'd Shout Hurray!

beckaandzac

If You Were Gay, I'd Shout Hurray!

Oct 19, 2007 22:06

Honest to God, when JKR starts talking about the books, I usually end up wanting to kick something because I often get the feeling she just makes up answers off the top of her head, and moreover treats her characters as symbols rather than people. I don't take interviews as canon in any way, and I think the central texts in the HP-verse will always ( Read more... )

i can has opinions, hp, things that are dorkily awesome

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xrated13 October 20 2007, 03:51:15 UTC

*applause* Your conclusion paragraph wins! :)

beckaandzac October 20 2007, 03:54:33 UTC

*bows* My brain is so wacky right now. :)

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beckaandzac October 20 2007, 04:02:32 UTC

It's one of those things I worry about in my own writing a good deal. It's a bit of that "be the change you wish to see in the world" thing. I'm glad you stopped by. :)

letmypidgeonsgo October 20 2007, 05:20:24 UTC

*claps*

in a way though, this is sad for me, just because i came to hate dumbledore with such a passion by the end (well, by ootp, i think), & i wouldn't want anyone to ever think that there's any other reason i hate him other than that he was an utter asshole, ya know?

that said, as you mentioned, if there's one anything-but-100%-hetero character, that pretty much opens the floodgates as possibilities go. i, for one, have no problem with jkr continuing to expand upon canon in interviews, etc - ultimately, it's all hers, & her word is law (i was thinkiing about posting on this, but i think my flist would tear me a new one) - and i hope she continues to tell us what was, in her mind, going on behind the scenes

and as a personal aside, if remus wasn't at least bi i will eat my left shoe!

femmenerd October 20 2007, 06:02:33 UTC

YES.

(I admit to also really liking that she said that what Hermione smelled in the Amortentia was Ron's hair.[/sap])

And also, though I really *have* said over and over that Dumbledore was gay, but it could have been *anyone* and I would have been happy, due to your stated reasons re: the queering of the Wizarding world.

pigeonrat October 20 2007, 14:07:40 UTC

I have no moral problem to any character being gay, of course, but reading that headline, my initial response was still: "What." I mean, I certainly didn't see that coming.

When I was thinking about that recent poll I put up about whether Ginny was planning to have sex with Harry, my thoughts did somehow meander around to the idea that yeah, presumably there are a lot of gay wizards and JKR probably knows it even though she didn't mention any explicitly as being so in the books.

I'm going to have to read the rest of the new revelations after I go to the bathroom. But yay for Neville being married.