[FFML] [News][Potter] Rowling Speaks on Dumbledore

[Ed Simons]

Richard Lawson wrote:

>I've actually found this news to be a good indicator of the level of
>homophobia in an individual.  If all of a sudden they think this entirely
>changes how they look at Dumbledore and they're suddenly uncomfortable with
>him as a character, that person is fairly homophobic.
>
>If they say, "Cool!", they tend the other way.
>
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My initial thought from Rowlings comment about it annoying certain 
groups is this is just an attempt to generate controversy and thus 
publicity.

My next thought was drowned out be the squeeing of the yaoi fangirls, 
who I expect to churn out a ludicrous amount of Dumbledore/Harry, 
Dumbledore/Snape, etc, on ff.net in the next two weeks.  Most of these 
fics will feature 'chapters' of less 500 words and their 'authors' will 
be totally unaware of the invention of the spellchecker.

My third thought is Luke Mason's analysis of the character based on this 
does a lot to explain certain inactions of Dumbledore, so some good may 
come of it in the world of fanfic.

If only it weren't for the squeeing yaoi fangirls