So, I'm last to know

[lls_mutant]

But Dumbledore was gay.

Well, duh.

The purple suit? The whole thing with Grindelwald? Seriously, the purple suit again? (okay, so the suit's a stereotype. But still.)

Okay, so I didn't really think it, but I am laughing my ass off over here. And given how rarely I swear, you must know that that means I'm laughing pretty damn hard.

Yeah, I would have preferred Remus/Sirius canon. But Dumbledore is just somehow funnier. Especially given his brother and the goats thing.

And now, everyone can stop the "oh, she only wrote Lupin/Tonks to degay the characters!" bit. I mean, yeah. I hated Lupin/Tonks in book 6 (it got redeemed a bit in book 7 because it was so messed up). But I always thought she wrote it because she wanted to- saying that she did it to degay him/her/them is a really nasty accusation, really.

::giggle:: Dumbledore. Sorry, but that's just really, really funny.

Comments

[krabapple.livejournal.com]

That is just amazing. Funny. And perfect.

Of course I would have preferred Remus/Sirius canon, too, but as long as she remains neutral on the subject I can have my personal fanon, thank you very much, and I am happy with that. :)

Man, all of the Dumbledore/Grindelwald shippers have got to be dancing in the streets.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Amen to all of it! :)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

It's funny and awesome. I so hope it's not a hoax!

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Rumor has it Newsweek's got the story now, so it sounds like it's pretty true!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

That's where I saw it. So I guess it IS true. Cool!

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

This is what happens when I'm not online all day.

Love it. :)) :))

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

I guess it just happened in the last hour. Fandom is going to EXPLODE.

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, totally. I'm kind of interested in seeing what the haters are going to say. I'm totally going to avoid the discussions (me? wank? forget it) but I'm curious to see what they come up with.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Well, speaking as someone who hates Dumbledore, I have to say this doesn't change anything.

Before, I thought he was an arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative son of a bitch.

Now, he's an arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative son of a bitch who happens to be gay. IF I decide to pay attention to her extracanonical statements, which I usually don't. I tend to go with the notion that if something is important enough to be canon, it should be in the books already.

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Hm. Interesting. Both on his being an arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative son of a bitch (an opinion that I've heard before), and her extra-canonical statements.

I do wonder, though, if there was some realistic way that she could have put Dumbledore's being gay into canon, given that the series was (mostly) told from Harry's POV, considering appropriateness and relevance. But then again, does it matter now, either?

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree that this doesn't change anything about Dumbledore. That's actually something I like about it- his sexuality was secondary in terms of his characterization. I can see where it would be vaguely important in that it explains why he couldn't kill Grindelwald and why it took him so long to fight him, but in terms of Harry and that plotline, it has absolutely no relevance.

Plus, as you say, he's an arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative SOB who happens to be gay, not someone who is all that stuff because he's gay. I'm not the world's biggest DD fan, but I don't quite consider him a huge villain, either. I think he's made some bad mistakes, and I think he's got a very shady past, but I think there's a reason he's so big on second chances, and it's because he knows he needed one, and he took it well. But that certainly doesn't make him perfect.

Truthfully, I couldn't get invested enough in him in the first five books to care too much by book 6 :)

And I'm still not writing DD fanfic! (I find him very difficult to write in general regardless.)

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

heheheee. totally with you on that one.