Posted by
JP on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:20:47 PM
Dumbledore Is Not Gay
Taking Stories More Seriously than the Author
by John Mark Reynolds [author,
academic] 10/24/07
Recently, J.K. Rowling announced to the world that one of her characters, the heroic mentor of Harry Potter, Dumbledore was gay.
Nonsense.
There is no evidence of it in the books and the books (at this point)
are all that matter. I have always thought the books deeply Christian
not because Rowling told me so (which she recently confirmed), but
because the text is full of Christian images and ideas. She had a
chance to give Dumbledore a boyfriend, but she muffed it. I refuse to
denigrate friendship by reading every close one as sexual . . . and she
gave us nothing else. [more]