[ 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

[thano.livejournal.com]

I happen to think omitting Dumbledore's orientation was a brilliant move on her part. For serious. I mean, what would most people have paid attention to regarding Dumbledore if they had known he was gay in an earlier book? Would they have paid more attention to his immense character depth and strengths and vulnerabilities, or his immense character depth and strengths and vulnerabilities in conjecture with his homosexuality? Again, his orientation wasn't important, and that's what makes her decision so smart, so intelligent. The gay man in media is pigeonholed by his sexual desires and love life far too often. Dumbledore's orientation never defines everything his character is... it's simply something that he is, and no more. And that's phenomenally thoughtful.

Hmm... summing up my tl;dr up there, Rowling chose to make a strong, deep, gay character, instead of a strong, deep, gay character. And that is a refreshing change. ♥

... Though, um, I'm not lauding the smartness of announcing it in Carnegie Hall. >> She could've saved it for the encyclopedia. The fandom is patient.

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Whether or not somebody's orientation is mentioned in a book, people will make it up for them. :/ However, I agree with your observation about people jumping on homosexual characters and not paying any other attention to them than that.

[roko-epsilon.livejournal.com]

Ahah, I like your points. c:

I'll bet if she had brought up his sexuality earlier on, people would find a way to interpret all of his interactions with Harry as him being a dirty pedophile or something. DUMBLEDORE IS NOT OROCHIMARU KTHX.