*blink* And...these people who complain about fictional gay relationships ending badly while heterosexual relationships end up happily...They think Snape's relationship with Lily was peachy-keen?
I never even thought about that aspect of it. To me, it was all about Dumbledore'sand Grindelwald's (and Snape's choices.
Dumbledore, who had been thinking things similar to Grindelwald, allowed himself to believe his and Grindelwald's ideas were right until it was demonstrated to him how harmful those ideas were. When he couldn't persuade Grindelwald that the ideas of their youth were wrong, and when he saw that Grindelwald was doing harm with them, he had to kill Grindelwald.
Whether Dumbledore and Grindelwald were gay or not doesn't matter to their relationship. Their choices determined the course of their relationship, not the fact that Dumbledore, at least, happened to be gay. People fall in love with people who seem suited to them but actually aren't, all the time.
Are the consequences of the gay couple's actions in your story appropriate to the actions they took? If so, then I wouldn't worry, and folks should calm down about Dumbledore. I don't really feel that 'Gay people can never be happy' is the message Rowling was trying to get across. Taking responsibility for your own actions is and always has been her message, I think. It's what Dumbledore did, and it's what Snape did. Gay doesn't enter into it.
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Date: 2007-10-22 04:47 pm (UTC)I never even thought about that aspect of it. To me, it was all about Dumbledore'sand Grindelwald's (and Snape's choices.
Dumbledore, who had been thinking things similar to Grindelwald, allowed himself to believe his and Grindelwald's ideas were right until it was demonstrated to him how harmful those ideas were. When he couldn't persuade Grindelwald that the ideas of their youth were wrong, and when he saw that Grindelwald was doing harm with them, he had to kill Grindelwald.
Whether Dumbledore and Grindelwald were gay or not doesn't matter to their relationship. Their choices determined the course of their relationship, not the fact that Dumbledore, at least, happened to be gay. People fall in love with people who seem suited to them but actually aren't, all the time.
Are the consequences of the gay couple's actions in your story appropriate to the actions they took? If so, then I wouldn't worry, and folks should calm down about Dumbledore. I don't really feel that 'Gay people can never be happy' is the message Rowling was trying to get across. Taking responsibility for your own actions is and always has been her message, I think. It's what Dumbledore did, and it's what Snape did. Gay doesn't enter into it.
Chantal