Just an FYI
As a child, I instantly fell in love with J.K. Rowling’s characters and the story’s adventurous plot. I even made myself and my ten-year-old friends/co-witches our very own makeshift wands, so we could arrive to the theatres ready for action . The series provided the perfect escape from my own reality, which is why I didn’t expect it to reflect any other form of reality—including queerness. This isn’t to say that fantasy fiction can’t involve queer characters.
This isn’t the first time Rowling has addressed Dumbledore’s sexuality. In 2007, Rowling admitted in a Q&A session that she had “always thought of Dumbledore as gay” Fans were shocked at this new revelation, considering it had never been addressed, or even nodded at, in the series’ lifetime which, if we’re counting, spans ten years, seven books and eight movies.
But Rowling’s comments, then and now, are actually pretty problematic. When a character’s sexuality is not mentioned or displayed at all, it is incorrect and irresponsible to call that “representation.” Dumbledore’s off-the-record gay identity did nothing to make me feel less alone when I was in high school and discovering my own sexuality. True, I probably wouldn’t have seen myself in an elderly, white, British wizard.
Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione 😘 https://t.co/5fKX4InjTHSimilarly, when asked about religion, Rowling claims that although most of the students are Wiccan, Anthony Goldstein, an extremely obscure student at Hogwarts mentioned only a handful of times, was actually Jewish. Wow!! A character that I literally had to Google to remember is Jewish? Sure, J.K.
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