Comments on: Gay Wizards!!! What the Fawkes!?! http://themagicsatchel.com/blog/2007/10/23/gay-wizards-what-the-fawkes/ smashing the world with happy good times Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:40:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: rollingthunder http://themagicsatchel.com/blog/2007/10/23/gay-wizards-what-the-fawkes/comment-page-1/#comment-383 rollingthunder Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:40:15 +0000 http://themagicsatchel.com/2007/10/23/gay-wizards-what-the-fawkes/#comment-383 so, from the article on this "outing" (which is likely a simplification of the actual discussion since this is a CNN report), JK was asked if Dumbledore would find true love and she replies "He's gay". Other than getting her books back in the headlines, and possibly tapping in to the gay demographic for even more sales, what does that have to do with anything? Is she implying the two are mutually exclusive? This has publicity stunt written all over it. I suspect she either had the question planted, or simply seized the opportunity to create much ado about nothing. For another author's perspective, I read an interesting commentary by Neil Gaiman on this "news story" in his blog. http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/10/flowers-of-romance.html so, from the article on this “outing” (which is likely a simplification of the actual discussion since this is a CNN report), JK was asked if Dumbledore would find true love and she replies “He’s gay”. Other than getting her books back in the headlines, and possibly tapping in to the gay demographic for even more sales, what does that have to do with anything? Is she implying the two are mutually exclusive?

This has publicity stunt written all over it. I suspect she either had the question planted, or simply seized the opportunity to create much ado about nothing.

For another author’s perspective, I read an interesting commentary by Neil Gaiman on this “news story” in his blog. http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/10/flowers-of-romance.html

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