Homosexuality and J.K. Rowling
Homosexuality, something that have existed in human society since there was recorded history. Some say Shakespeare surrounds himself with young handsome men, while others believe that King Edward II is in love with Piers Gaveston. As a fan of English literature, I merely laughed and accepted those facts as alternative history. Especially on topics related to historical figures that none can be of certain, unless we somehow invents a time machine of course.
With the recent revelation by the world famous author J.K. Rowling, Potter fans world wide now either accept that Albus Dumbledore is gay or started on a hopeless journey to fight it. The real question that remains is, what was her motive?
In today’s societies, homosexuality is not a common accepted trend. It might be in some nations, but there are still crowds that fight it. On the very top of the ‘against’ list is Vatican, capital and country to all the Catholics world wide. By drawing attention to the homosexual lifestyle of a character in her books, J.K. Rowling might have made an opposition of the Catholics.
There is a fair chance that this is not the effect Rowling had planned. These words could bring forth the down fall of the Potter franchise, if she did not handle them carefully. The Harry Potter series is a successful enough franchise that its marketing budget can be leveraged. So successful that it is no longer necessary to draw attention to the series by starting an argument on a jerkwater character.
However, if you think about it a bit, is it possible that J.K. Rowling is planning for a new book? One that predates all the Potter books. Famous authors such as C.S. Lewis have used this style of series continuation. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia started off with ‘The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe’. However, that is the second book of the series of seven. The first book, Magician’s Nephew, was actually the second last one to be publish. What if J.K. Rowling is planning a new, eighth addition to the now ended Potter series, by inserting a book before the very first.
> What if J.K. Rowling is planning a new, eighth addition to the now ended Potter series, by inserting a book before the very first.
Interesting! A Potter pre-quel … yes, maybe. They should’ve done this for the Alien movies too — instead of the “resurrection” of characters that were most radically destroyed at the ending of the movie before.
What puzzles me, though : what does this have to do with Dumbledores (homo)sexuality ? Rowling doesn’t need that ingredient just to enable the prequel thing, right ?
As to why he’s gay then – more likely, she found it to be an interesting twist. And it is, isn’t it ?