poetry in commotion...

Dumble-back-dore?

So I was going to blog about the debate last night but I decided it was not interesting because, frankly, it didn't change the situation much.  Rudd is still the preferred and people really really don't like Costello.

No, tonight's subject of interest is this.  Dumbledore, beloved hero, premier academic and pillar of the wizarding world has been outed as gay. Great, just great.  Now I can't reread those HP scenes with Harry and Dumbledore without a certain disquiet.  Where before was the pure and totally non dodgy relationship of mentor and protege has turned into something a little more sinister.  "Give me your wand Harry" he leered over his spectacles, reaching forward OH GOD NO WHYYYY .

Levity aside, I liked to think that Dumbledore was this pure, and near the end slightly fatherly, figure to Harry.  This revelation adds a certain dimension to the character that really I could've done without.  That said, I would be less concerned, nay, enraptured, if Rowling had instead outed Professor McGonagall as a lesbian.  You start to wonder, with her Victorian-esque disciplnie and stell, whether that hides inside a kinky headmistress willing to take...uh.. extraordinary displinary measures against the girls.  In their dorms.  In the middle of the night.  I'm talking about bare bottomed spankings! Awakened feelings of guilty pleasure! Sexual experimentation of a sapphic nature! Oh what fan fiction there could be! 

Instead, Grindelwald and Dumbledore erotic fan fiction awaits, and the internet is a much darker place for it.

I open at the close.  Also, Harry, I'm gay.

posted by jaseypoo! @ 8:35 PM