Well, it was new to me

[rivers_bend]

I've been seeing the news about JK's outing of Dumbledore all over my f'list but only this morning saw:

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

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[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Boy, I'm glad you said that. I was just coming back here to ask you if you saw that in Book 7 or was it just me? Because unfortunately I have some conservative Xtians on my f'list who are PISSY about this. I got in a conversation with one of them, saying I wasn't surprised at all because I thought it was pretty clear in Book 7, even though before that, it had never occurred to me to think about Dumbledore's sexuality. And she said she hadn't seen that at all and it makes her really angry when the rug is pulled out from her regarding a character she thinks she knows well, and the whole thing of Dumbledore being gay is completely irrelevant and therefore the author should just shut up. I pointed out 1) JKR couldn't very well allow a scriptwriter to turn her gay character straight w/o saying something and 2) when she's asked a direct question about the character's love life, why shouldn't she be honest?

No response - which is probably a good thing because I think she would have flamed me ... and also I doubt she has a very logical response. It's a knee-jerk negative reaction on her part, I think.

I don't know how I ended up with conservative, right-wing het Xtians and liberal, polyamorous bisexual Pagans on the same friends list. Don't tell on me. ::blinks::

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I think it's good to have a diverse f'list :) Though I'm pretty sure mine is more at the LPBP end of the spectrum...

I first saw this news on a HUGE comm of celeb gossip, that I surfed to somehow, and there were several people on the comments who seemed miffed/upset/angry about it. Which (given I hang out almost exclusively in slash comms) shocked the heck out of me.

I don't think I'd considered D's sexuality before book seven at all, but it was pretty clear to me that he was in love with, and not just in a man-crush sort of way, G in book seven. It's not irrelevant. No more so than that Harry's not in love with Hermione but Ron is. Granted, without book 7 it wouldn't really be relevant, no more so than knowing who Madame Hooch was dating. But we had all that Dumbledore back story, and it is important. His feelings for and about G play a huge part in the decisions he made and the actions he took. Pretending it was something other than it was would be lying and stupid.