Dear J.K. Rowling...

[Rhiizzo]

Dear J.K. Rowling,

How's the weather over there? Must be a lovely blue from all the money you're packing in these days.

One complaint though;

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT DUMBLEDORE IS GAY. Mkay?

I have nothing against homosexuals. Actually, I am in desperate need of a homosexual friend. My life is too straight and edgy. I need a circle.

Anwyho...
You said this 'fact' after the last book came out. And I'm just sitting in my house, innocently painting my toes when BAM!

To all you children and devout Christian families out there and to all the bigots who read my book, by the way, Dumbie is gay. KTHNX. Mwa. =3


Yeah...OKAY. I seriously think that you just want to start a controversy because the Harry Potter legacy is ending. You selfishly wanted to remember that Harry Potter hasn't ended. You're not even a good writer, seriously. You were just lucky enough to think of the concept of wizards living among a muggle world. You took us places and I thank you for that but you have no romance in your words. No poetry, no metaphors. No even foreshadowing or clues as to Dumbledore's homosexuality. You probably packed in heaps of hate mail and you and your publisher and editor and lawyer thought of a plan to take in notes of Dumbledore and have it published. Uh-huh.... notes could be changed okay?

AND the only moments of his gayness maybe when he was always with Harry in that 'secret' place of his. That is just being a *****. And you don't want the ominous and great Dumbledore who rivals Merlin, be a ***** now won't you?

You can't take back the controversy. But I honor your guts or scandal for being the first to make such a beloved and known character gay, after everyone accepted him.

Hats to you.  

[Ffaux Pas]

Aye. It all seems rather random to me. I read the first five and tried to enjoy them, but she just wasn't a good enough writer for me to keep caring.

The thing is, I didn't notice it hinted at either, he never developed any sort of relationship that I've heard about -- So my immediate reaction upon hearing that he's gay is 'So? What's the point?'

It never came up in the series, there's not really any reason to mention it, unless you're looking to weird people out, make those of us with taste think you're hip or some s**t, or to fuel the fanfic writers.

If he was gay all along you'd think that it'd have come out a little more in his character. Character development whut?

So instead I was just like 'Ok, that makes no difference to anything. I'm just going to go on with life now while you try to justify that to anyone who cares.'  

[Snow set Afire]

I think I stopped at book four, if I remember right. The writing wasn't enough for me to feel even partially immersed, and "I TALK WITH CAPSLOCK ON WHEN A SIMPLE EXCLAMATION POINT WOULD SUFFICE!!!" got on my nerves quickly.

But yes, there was no foreshadowing, and I agree it was done just for the attention.  

[Pookat]

Oh my I must say there is nothing extravagent about her writing at all. She is the most overexclaimed mediocre author of our time if I must say. She got really lucky and that's about it. When you have an army of millions of literary nitwits and 12 year olds screaming about your book then it doesn't matter if it is the same writing capacity of a middle school student.

And the whole Dumbledore being gay thing is an outstandingly obvious cry for attention now that no one is going to give two shits about her. The sad part is everyone and their dog is going to jump on the idea and play it out like there is no tommorow.  

[Prince Starchild]

The Harry Potter books are possibly the worst written and best received books of our lifetime. The first three were children's books, read like children's books, and were enjoyable as children's books. However, after that, someone convinced Rowling that she was a real author, and that's where it went wrong. She has no literary style to call her own, because she writes like any middle school student can, as Dyslexic Rainbow said.

LOOK AT THIS s**t

The Harry Potter books have inspired the "wizard rock" movement, where a number of bands were formed whose names, image and song lyrics relate to the Harry Potter world. Examples include Harry and the Potters and The Cruciatus Curse.

Harry Potter has also brought changes in the publishing world, one of the most noted being the reformation of the New York Times Best Seller list. The change came immediately preceding the release of Goblet of Fire in 2000 when publishers complained of the number of slots on the list being held by Harry Potter and other children's books. The Times subsequently created a separate children's list for Harry Potter and other children's literature.

The word muggle has spread beyond its Harry Potter origins, used by many groups to indicate those who are not aware or are lacking in some skill. In 2003, "muggle", entered the Oxford English Dictionary with that definition.

There is an accredited course at California State University, Bakersfield devoted to the literature of Harry Potter titled "The World of Harry Potter."

The 2007 Iowa State Fair featured a statue of Harry Potter sculpted entirely out of butter. The sculpture was based on Harry's appearance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and featured sculptures of Harry's owl Hedwig and his school trunk as depicted at the beginning of the book.

Harry Potter is pop culture gone wrong. It is marketing. It is a capitalist wet dream. Who cares if it increased literacy in children, because it only encouraged most to read Harry Potter and write HP derivatives. I agree with Byatt, that Harry Potter is a “secondary world, made up of intelligently patchworked derivative motifs from all sorts of children's literature … written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip."

More telling is the criticism of Anthony Holden, "the Potter saga was essentially patronising, very conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain." That's what horrified me most, how disgustingly conservative it all was.  

[Roane_Fossegrim]

I must make a small defense for J.K. Rowling here on one issue and absolutely agree on another.

I think that J.K. Rowling is a great author. I mean, she wouldn't be as widely known and read if she wasn't. I read those books and loved those books, hell I still do, even if the last ones doesn't really spark my interest. I think they are a great way to get kids thinking about all the mythology in the world and wondering about other cultures without automatically wanting to burn anybody who doesn't go to church on Sunday. Love to J. K. Rowling.

But the Dumbledore being gay thing?

Bullshit.

That was her throwing a bone to the queer community because she totally blasted them by destroying her original admittance that Remus and Sirius were a couple. They are a couple because she stayed true to their characters, but then she made Remus marry Tonks so that everybody would shut up about the greatest gay wizard couple ever. So everybody was pissed that she thought homosexuality was too controversial to throw into a book about wizards (because wizards aren't also seen as sinful). So she was like, "Fine! I'm not taking back that Remus is straight," seeing as Sirius was never made straight, "But Dumbledore is gay. Ok?"

Bullshit.  

[Special Agent Nishin]

I enjoyed the first four books. Afterwards, I felt they went downhill. It went even faster after the fifth.

Dumbledore is gay? I've read all seven books. I've joked that Dumbledore is a *****, but c'mon. I've read nothing that makes me say, "Wow, he's sofa king gay!!!"