[ SECRET POST #289 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #289 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 176 secrets from Secret Submission Post #042.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 2 3 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 3 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, October 22nd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

not the op

it's bad writing if she has to state now that he was gay. if it wasn't important in the story when she wrote it, why is it important for her to clarify it now?

[(Anonymous)]

She was asked during an interview about his past loves. Was she supposed to lie about that?

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

You do know that authors develop characters beyond what they actually write, partially to make them more realistic and partially because it just happens that way? For instance, one of my characters' favorite food is grilled cheese sandwiches, but I'll probably never include that in my writing because there's no point. It's not important.

Dumbledore being gay was not important to the story, so there was no point in revealing it over the course of the story. Then it would have been treated as only there for shock value and been chewed out even MORE. The fact that she only reveals it now doesn't make it any less true.

[longlongwaytogo.livejournal.com]

They totally do develop heaps of stuff beyond what's in the story itself. But it's still part of the character...

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The author will always know way more about their own characters than the reader will, because the author practically lived their lives with them. Incorporating it all into the story would be messy and awkward.

[longlongwaytogo.livejournal.com]

sorry, I was more affirming what you said.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't specifically about Dumbledore being gay, she got asked a question, it doesn't bother me at all that she answered it. But she keeps piling on all these details about what so-and-so did later etc etc... even before book 7 came out, she kept giving all these spoilers and things... I just think it takes some of the fun out of it. :(