As Peg knows I really couldn't care less about Dumbledore's sexuality, but like you I'm so tired of these random tidbits from interviews.
These random tidbits? Or is it simply this random tidbit? People have been eager to hear about the subsequent lives of Harry, Ron, Neville, Hagrid, but suddenly when she acknowledges this fact (which she said yesterday that she knew before the first book was even published, and so it informed her writing throughout the series) in response to a direct question, suddenly people are acting as if she crapped in their living room or something. I'm not convinced that people are saying things like this simply because they are somehow tired of J.K. Rowling answering questions that she has been asked. They are saying it because they don't like her answer to this particular question.
If it's that important put it in the book.
She did put it in the book--subtly. Or at least it's there if you look carefully. It's there in what Xenophilius says about Dumbledore and Grindelwald at the wedding. It's cleverly insinuated in Rita Skeeter's article. It's there in what Dumbledore tells Harry about his relationship with Grindelwald. It underlies, perhaps, the reasons why he gave Remus Lupin a chance and a job when no one else would, and why he understood and was sympathetic to Snape. It does add a lot to Dumbledore's characterization.
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Date: 2007-10-23 09:28 pm (UTC)These random tidbits? Or is it simply this random tidbit? People have been eager to hear about the subsequent lives of Harry, Ron, Neville, Hagrid, but suddenly when she acknowledges this fact (which she said yesterday that she knew before the first book was even published, and so it informed her writing throughout the series) in response to a direct question, suddenly people are acting as if she crapped in their living room or something. I'm not convinced that people are saying things like this simply because they are somehow tired of J.K. Rowling answering questions that she has been asked. They are saying it because they don't like her answer to this particular question.
If it's that important put it in the book.
She did put it in the book--subtly. Or at least it's there if you look carefully. It's there in what Xenophilius says about Dumbledore and Grindelwald at the wedding. It's cleverly insinuated in Rita Skeeter's article. It's there in what Dumbledore tells Harry about his relationship with Grindelwald. It underlies, perhaps, the reasons why he gave Remus Lupin a chance and a job when no one else would, and why he understood and was sympathetic to Snape. It does add a lot to Dumbledore's characterization.