Harry Potter fans: Did it affect your view of Dumbledore when you found out he was gay?

Question

I know it's old news, I was just curious. =D

J.K. Rowling was asked in an interview if Dumbledore, who believed so strongly in the power of love, ever fell in love himself. She answered with yes, he fell in love with Gellert Grindelwald, his best friend when he was a young man. She also confirmed that Dumbledore was gay. =D

Answer 1

Not really, i'd never viewed him as someone who would discriminate over something as stupid as orientation or race or anything. He's way too smart for that.



JK was making a point that if the greatest, noblest, most humble wizard of all time could be gay, then anyone who was in a minority or different could acheieve something amazing.

Answer 2

No because the books were called Harry Potter, so there wasn't much of a focus on Dumbledore. I'm not really a fan though, I'm more of a Buffy person and no it did not effect my views of the show when Willow turned gay, Buffy had a lesbian experience (comics).

Answer 3

It did no longer impression my opinion lots. Dumbledore is relatively one among my least common characters in Harry Potter and that i'm form of... nicely, haha, i'm form of a purist while it includes one among those component and that i think of that purely what's interior the e book is relatively canon, even however JKR reported it, it relatively is not any longer interior the e book, so, i don't be attentive to. i became form of annoyed that quite of relatively writing it into the e book, she basically form of... reported it. however, are not getting me incorrect, it relatively is great that HP has a gay character, and that i think of there are others, too, that would desire to be gay that we don't be attentive to approximately. purely JKR will relatively be attentive to. yet Dumbledore being gay did no longer make me like him anymore... he became in no way a character I enjoyed so it basically form of stayed the comparable.

Answer 4

It made sense. It made the story between Dumbledore and Grindelwald more compelling.

Answer 5

Nope, Doesn't bother me. Even though I'm not that interested in the Harry Potter Books and such.

Answer 6

yes it did actually...



because I felt JK was just saying this in order to get some shock value....



She is the same author that hates fan fiction..( because alot of the women( on livejournal.com) who write harry potter fan fiction depict harry and malfoy as being lovers).



Once JK told the world that Dumbledorre was "GAY!!!!"...she exclaimed "oh no...the fanfic..the fanfic!"...





meaning the fan fiction and it's depiction of harry potter as being gay will have a field day with JK's news.





JK is a huge feminist...you'd think she would have Dumberdore come out of the closet long before this

Answer 7

It made me smile, but at the same time it seemed irrelevant: dumbledore was never a sexual character to me... I never thought of him as having a romantic life :L

Answer 8

Nope... I agree with the first answer though. I always wondered why she made him gay. You wouldn't even know it by reading the books... it seems weird that she never mentioned it in a book. (At least I didn't catch it.)

Answer 9

Nah, it just seemed to fit with his personality to be honest.

Answer 10

nope



i find it odd, though. idk why the author made him gay. *shrug* like he doesn't have a huge role in the series, compared to harry, ron, hermione, and such . . .