[ SECRET POST #4293 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4293 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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05. [SPOILERS for Castle Rock]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of rape/assault]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In the 2000's the "woke" and "SJW" craze wasn't as massive as it is today. Nobody was criticizing her for lack of diversity or whatever. At least not to the extent fucking everything is criticized with these days.

It also depends if you believe she always meant Dumbledore to be gay or if it was only tacked on to appeal to aforementioned SJW's long after the books were finished. I honestly don't think she originally wrote Dumbledore gay or Hermione black, but she tried to gain some brownie points by pretending that she intended that without ever actually committing to it.

[(Anonymous)]

As a gay: no, Dumbledore was definitely fuckin' gay. The way he talked about things RE: his ex was how I'd have written around a gay character as a gay person.

[ayebydan]

this. I am genuinely baffled at how anyone ever read Dumbles as straight and that was before JK confirmed he was gay. She used a lot of stereotypes to aid her but she dropped a lot of hints along the way.

[(Anonymous)]

Such as...?

No, I'm legit curious because not one hint crept into any of the books except the last one, and I've read them pretty closely.

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that Dumbledore was meant to be gay. But writing him using Hayes-era tropes and coding during a decade when many of her peers in SFF and middle-grade fiction were taking risks to write gay characters openly doesn't give her any credit either. It really baffles me how "Jo" apologists keep giving cookies for compliance with industry censorship. Especially now that it's happening all over again with the Fantastic Beasts franchise.