{"id":221,"date":"2007-10-21T03:51:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=221"},"modified":"2007-10-23T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T10:37:50","slug":"dumbledore-is-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Dumbledore is &#8230; gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/images\/albus-aberforth.jpg\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You know, I was wondering why no one at Hogwarts &#8220;turned out&#8221; gay. Sure, maybe Dean and Seamus, but not likely. The later books degenerated into an awkward &#8220;snogfest&#8221;, but all totally above board on the hetero front. When it eventuated that Umbridge had banned male and female students to be less than eight inches apart, I wondered what that meant for the <i>others<\/I> at Hogwarts. Yet now, all has changed in a way that affects absolutely nothing already committed to a page!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7053982.stm\">Albus Dumbledore is gay<\/a>. Guess I was wrong: he isn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=176\">human<\/a> after all; he&#8217;s a horrible monster and the books that contain him must for some reason be consigned to the bin.<\/p>\n<p>I would have thought that maybe Dumbledore could have found some sort of requited love in his life, but it seems this only came out anyway because the script for <i>Half Blood Prince<\/I> suggested that he had a thing for a girl in his youth. Given the totally sexless nature of all of the teachers at Hogwarts, it&#8217;s strange to consider this of Dumbledore, and it brings out another parallel with Snape, although I vouch that Dumbledore&#8217;s lack of requisition was infinitely less creepy. I&#8217;m not entirely certain that blind love for someone leads to a taste for slavery and genocide, but what would I know? I&#8217;ve never been blindly in love with someone, and therefore have not been offered the oh-so-common choices detailed above.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean, exactly? I&#8217;m not entirely sure, although unfulfilled homosexuals seem quite popular in British literature. Some people have happy endings. I&#8217;m looking at you, Alan Hollinghurst! I&#8217;m actually wondering what the wider response to this will be: redoubled efforts to burn the text? Widespread shock and horror? Or greater peace, love, and understanding? Not ruddy likely, but I think that Potter fans will applaud just about anything Rowling says. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a hastily typed transcript of some pertinent questions and answers at <a href=\"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\">The Leaky Cauldron<\/a>. The images were done by someone called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosforums.com\/showthread.php?t=47378\">Caladan<\/a>. I could have searched further afield for <i>Harry Potter<\/I> fan art than a Google Image Search, but I know how dangerous the internet is.<\/p>\n<p>Plus Rowling&#8217;s answer about the goat charms was spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus material: I compared my <a href=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=175\">coming out<\/a> with a lacklustre conclusion to the <i>Potter<\/I> series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I was wondering why no one at Hogwarts &#8220;turned out&#8221; gay. 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Guess I was wrong: he isn&#8217;t human after all; he&#8217;s a horrible monster <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}