<p>How are your kids coping? How are you?</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter to me. He’s Dumbledore.<br>
I don’t care what ethnicity he is, either…</p>
<p>Oh, please. Don’t you think just maybe this is a ploy to sell the paperbacks to people who got rid of their hardcover copies and will now feel compelled to get new ones so they can “seek out the clues” that don’t really exist anyway? (or capture the attention of those who never bothered to begin with) Why else would she bother with something so irrelevant to the plot and characters of the story?</p>
<p>Someone asked her about it, and she responded. She had also clued in the director of the HP-HBP movie. Come on, now…you really think she’s worrying about how to sell more books?</p>
<p>i still love dumbledoreeeeeeee</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m with unregistered. She doesn’t have any particular reason to do anything else to sell more books, and a ploy like this would be a pretty dumb way to do it.</p>
<p>who gets rid of their hadcover HP copies? we have 2 at home including the one that arrived at summer camp.</p>
<p>ctymomteacher: the dumbledore gay remark was one of hundreds of additional trivia that JKR has been revealing to fans in interviews, on fan websites, etc etc. </p>
<p>I think it was brilliant to create a wise, respected and lovable character, keep him in the closet and then out him long after his death.</p>
<p>I loved it, and am sure my kids are totally surprised!</p>
<p>Too much information… I really didn’t need to know about Dumbledore’s sex life.</p>
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<p>No more so than seeing Daniel Radcliffe naked on the stage in London as my daughters did. 
Now that was traumatic.</p>
<p>I realize that Harry Potter has many adult fans…And, I realize that the children who started reading the series as 10 year-olds are now adults…And, I realize that both adults and children can “get” different things out of the same material (heck, think of how “The Simpsons” works on different levels)…And, I did suspect that Dumbledore’s relationship with Grindelwald may have been a homosexual one…And, I realize that Jo only “outed” Dumbledore in response to a question about his sexuality…And, I realize that Jo had notebooks full of her characters’ back-stories to aid her in writing the series…</p>
<p>But, ultimately, Harry Potter is a children’s book series, and I don’t think that the revelation about Dumbledore adds anything positive to it.</p>
<p>Not being homophobic here, just don’t think we needed to know this.</p>
<p>cleveland, what do you suggest she have replied, if not with the truth behind her characterization of Dumbledore? </p>
<p>momneedsadvice, I didn’t see her reply as information about Dumbledore’s sex life. She was asked a question about whether or not he ever found love. I agree with vicariousparent here that it was obviously one of thousands of details which are in her manuscripts and outlines which may not have been obvious to all readers. </p>
<p>I applaud her for answering the question with honesty. As for the suggestion that it was to sell more books? Come on now, who doesn’t have HP books, and, in any case, selling more books is probably the last thing that JKR needs to do. She’s a billionaire.</p>
<p>Alwaysamom, you misunderstood me. My posting was based on my preferences only. I was not implying that Jo should have lied.</p>
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I don’t see homosexuality as an adult topic.</p>
<p>(I didn’t hear this news myself, actually.)</p>
<p>But it was obvious - as a youth he clearly had a thing for Grindelwald. Sort of Brokeback Castle.</p>
<p>This isn’t about sex life–not that there’s anything wrong with that-- it’s about identity. I’ve read that Jane Austen had fully realized her characters’ lives far beyond what she actually wrote–she knew who Mary and Kitty were marrying, for instance–of course she did because she created these characters and they didn’t die when she stopped writing. Novelists can create their own worlds. Brava to Rowling for coming out with hers.</p>
<p>^^^Very well said.</p>
<p>Mine heard and don’t seem to care either way. The youngest (9) hasn’t read the books yet, but has enjoyed the movies. I’m curious to see if this ‘reverse order’ affects her enjoyment of (or attention span for) the books when she reads them</p>
<p>I missed this! Can someone please post link of interview?</p>
<p>How interesting! The thought never crossed my mind, but now, eh, yeah it makes sense. I agree that it’s a wonderful idea, to have a respectable character be outed, after everyone already loves and respects him.</p>
<p>This is an article about the interview: <a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787[/url]”>http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787</a>
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