Silver Tongue

hoofprint-is-working:

darren-freakin-criss:

takealookatyourlife:

heroicallyfound:

svetlana-del-rey:

Was she going to slap you because you never in any way made him gay in the actual books, taking zero risks/doing absolutely nothing for gay characters in literature, and only announcing your “authorial intent” afterwards for a cheap shot at looking like an ~ally~

^^^

Gay people are just normal people. We are not told about any of the Hogwarts professors love lives, other than Snape, and it would be completely out of character for Dumbledore to walk around telling everyone about his sexuality.

Did you want her to make him dress in glittery platform boots, a crop top, and decorate his office in rainbow flags to make it more obvious for you? Would that be enough of a stereotype to appease you people? Or what? Please tell me. I’d like to know how you think a gay character is supposed to be portrayed.

And did you miss the Grindelwald chapters in the ‘actual books’? Or was that also not obvious enough for you? Did Dumbledore need to whisper “always” wistfully in order for you to connect that he had romantic feelings for Grindelwald? Maybe you are American and need them to gaze longingly into each others eyes with awkward close ups of their fingers almost grazing each other that Hollywood thinks means ‘true love’. 

It didn’t fit into his relationship to Harry to ever say “I’m gay”, and so it was not stated explicitly (you might have noticed the book was told from Harry Potter’s perspective).

The point is though, that he is a homosexual, well respected, powerful, and very loved wizard- and his sexuality doesn’t matter because no one else thinks it matters. a.k.a. no one care that he loves men, and that is wonderful. 

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Dumbledore was always gay. It was not a change of mind. In early scripts of the Harry Potter movies, JK Rowling shot down several writers whenever they even suggested that Dumbledore “fancied” a witch. 

Does anyone else wanna see more about his relationship with Grindelwald?

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  10. incompletebutconsistent said: Maybe that was her first realisation about it, or maybe it came before, but I do think she’s right to say that he’s a gay character regardless of when she thought of it. It adds a dimension to the character, in particular to his relationship with Grindelwald, and how secretive he is (which is also the reason why it would be weird for it to come up). Not to mention that until 2003 it was literally illegal to tell children that gay people exist.
  11. incompletebutconsistent said: I don’t know that JKR wrote him consciously as gay, certainly not at first, but sometimes when you write a character enough it begins to take on a life of its own, and it’s as if you’re not so much inventing as discovering things about the character. I think that’s what happened with Dumbledore. She had them take out a line from the sixth film about Dumbledore liking a girl, with the note “he’s gay!”, and she was absolutely right because that sounds fucking bizarre.
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