I really shouldn't look

[pegkerr]

And I really shouldn't say anything. It does terrible things to my blood pressure. But I've been reading some of the incredible and unbelievably nasty comments that have been posted at various websites in response to the news reports that Rowling said that she always thought Dumbledore to be gay. And some of this is coming from Harry Potter fan sites, rather than general news sites. Holy cow, people.

Your [sic] missing the point. This is a series of books written for children. Sexual preference has no place in it, has nothing to do with it. It is sick that she felt the need to taint such excellent reads and what could of possibly been concidered classics in the future with sex. Rather twisted world we live in, that sexual preference is bled into something like this.

I’m sorry to hear of this. We’ve just started this book with both of our daughters and our little boy (ages 4, 6 and 7) and I am not sure how to explain to them that we’ll have to read something else instead. Why do people have to spoil things for the young and innocent by bringing in unnatural elements to such a wonderful story?

Well JK, you’ve ruined the entire book series for me. Happy? No. How about appalled? Offended? Irate? Yes, any of those emotions would do. This pronouncement, does nothing for the series except to taint what was once a wonderful book series. Discussing Dumbledore’s sexuality, after the series is done, when it has no real influence on the series and bends the imagination of the readers, is just cruel and smacks of a political agenda. Especially since this series caters to youth who don’t need you tainting their idealistic view of adults and the characters in the books they read. I’m tossing our books and movies.. thanks for ruining it..

Kudos to JK Rowling for ruining a perfectly good children’s series. She probably knew that doing this before the series was finished would have hurt sales. I guess it is the same all around the world, you can take the person out of the ghetto but can’t give them class.

i am very dissapointed at Rowling, is not only that homosexuality is not natural and is not right. i think that Dumbledore was a role model for today’s kids, but now she declares that he is gay after selling her last book… it’s not right for the kids who use to think of him as a hero. now i am sure a lot of kids don’t know what to think. my nephews are confused and questioning us about homosexuality and i think it’s dangerous for them and any other kid in the world. and it is unfair that she decided to make the declaration after the last book.. if i had known that there was a gay charachter in a children’s book i would not have bought the book for my nephews and i would not have read it miself. i will not be buying any more books from Rowling. clearly she knew that many people were not going to support this. so she chose to do this after she sold millions of dollars and not before. that is coward, convenient and honestly a little dishonest.

I really don’t like how this was handled by the author. I know they are her characters, but I feel like there is something wrong with creating new details for characters after the fact, that did not appear in any book. I’m not sure what the point is. She risks cheapening the series if she just starts throwing stuff out like that. If it was that important, why didn’t she write it? It seemed like a set-up to me, with a questioner asking if Dumbledore "finds true love." Dumbledore died in the penultimate book, so the question makes no sense. It seems like she’s trying to throw a bone to the gay community for some reason, and the result is now going to be a lot of uncomfortable conversations between parents and their kids. As one of those parents, this felt like an ambush.

Perfect reason to use the books as fireplace fuel.

I am completely disappointed; I wish she wouldn’t have said anything. I don’t know if I will ever be able to read any of the books again or watch the movies. This absolutely ruins it for me.

Yeah, there's more of that. A lot more. JKR is evil, cowardly, cynically opportunistic, in thrall to the evil gay agenda; she had no right to say it; how dare she say such a terrible and disgusting thing about a beloved character; revealing this about Dumbledore makes him exactly as bad as a murderer and a pedophile; kids who read the books and see the movies will be corrupted and ruined for life because of this; the books and movies should be burned . . . on and on.

Nope. I just can't respond to the idiocy. It's too much. Too unreal. Too disgusting and corrosive. Sometimes you just have to step back and simply watch the people making utter fools of themselves, but it's pointless to do much more than to simply shrug the shoulders, roll the eyes, and say, "You're dead wrong." And leave it at that.

The idiots probably wouldn't listen anyway.

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Yeah, just plug your ears (to keep your brainy bits in).