"Dumbledore is Gay" sez Rowling

There was nothing hilarious about it, Abbott. In fact, his early-college discovery of the simple learning disabilities that had made him struggle in high school was precisely what made him decide to major in education, so he could help kids like himself find ways to

I'm sorry, I'm getting a little misty, one second

wait you guys don't know anyone named harry? i have THREE friends named harry.

I have never known a person named Harry that was younger than 60.

nice of jkr to make the reveal after she's already ended the series and sold 15 gajillion books. woo yay and all, but also kind of having yr cock and eating it too.

prince harry

Now this raises all kinds of interesting questions.

1) Does what Rowling think matters?

lol subject-verb agreement

my little dog is called harry, he is like a tiny old-fashioned travelling salesman who breezes into town and makes hearts flutter.

in the remaining films, dumbledore will now be played by ian mckellen

because he's gay!!

it would be funny if michael gambon took a cue from this and just really queened it up in the next couple movies.

s1ocki have you heard his rationale for why he played magneto and the lotr dumbledore

Harry has definitely come back into fashion as a kids name, like George and Alfie, but Ron is really dated. Plenty of people with east Asian ethnicity have English names in the UK, not sure how different it is to the US though.

My best mate is called Harry, but then he was named after a man born in 1907.

two of my harry friends are jews, which makes some sort of sense to me, at least. they're both around 23?
the other is more peripheral, and he is (surprise) Japanese.

lol @ LAMAR SINGLETON

Every time I see this thread title I want it to say "'Dumbledore is Mad Gay' sez Rowling".

ya rly xpost

nice of jkr to make the reveal after she's already ended the series and sold 15 gajillion books. woo yay and all, but also kind of having yr cock and eating it too.

OTM. I find it hard to believe she's really like, "Oh, he's always been gay, I just didn't bother to mention it before."

ppl get *christened* harry?

the fuck, people.

it's like christening your kid dave.

'christened' to troll tuomas; insert whatever equiv you might want.

What?

To troll me how?

no other thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/books/a-detective-storys-famous-author-is-unmasked.html?smid=tw-share

That is one of the coolest things ever. It must have been really gratifying for her to get reviews minus all the usual "for grown ups, Harry Potter, mature, change of direction, blah blah" BS.

yeah gonna buy this to see what the fuss is all about

Don't expect a trans retcon in the Potterverse:

https://www.out.com/transgender/2019/12/19/harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-comes-out-terf

Yeah she’s been a fucking mess on this for years. Think I read somewhere she’s friends with W1ngs 0f Sc0tland?

That seems unlikely as she's anti Scottish independence.

You’re right but I am sure there’s some weird connection between them and some really objectionable people? Let me check this out

They both live in Dorset perhaps?

jk rowling has been a terf for years. she is also very friendly on twitter with "brian spanner" a unionist troll account that has tweeted at multiple female snp msps calling them cunts

don't want to link to wings over scotland but he details her literally @ing the brian spanner account 200 times.

xp ok thank you, that’s who I meant!

Here we have positive proof, if any were needed, that writing a series of wildly popular and lucrative children's books does not guarantee one has the ability to think sensibly about every issue that arises in a society. Other than her being rich as Scrooge McDuck, why would anyone regard her opinion about this as worth repeating?

That's Twitter for you.

now fantasy fans can have the same crushing disenchantment and disappointment in their authors that sci-fi fans have had to deal with since forever.

to me it seems unlikely that an angry entitled millionaire soft Tory would be a terf

sister is watching the TV adaptations of her detective books and dear god do i hate Rowling on a near visceral level

this is a brief interruption to my "more positivity" resolution, she pushed me into it

I've almost finished the last book with my kids

- She refuses to use the present subjunctive, which is infuriating

- She has a remarkably small stock of ideas

- Her conception of what magic is, and what wizards and witches are, and what they’re for, is weirdly stunted/unarticulated. She starts from a base of adorable cliches i.e. cauldrons, broomsticks, wands, but they never turn into anything interesting. They’re trappings. There’s a bank, a prison, a series of schools with terribly important exams but.. what are these wizards actually expected to do with these powers?

- Technically she’s quite good imo. Good sentences. The language flows. It’s extremely easy and satisfying to read aloud. And she always gives a clue as to what sort of voice to use i.e. Flitwick’s “squeaky voice” etc

- I don't buy Hermione and Ron at all. Ridiculous

- Harry and Ginny I do buy, depressingly. Harry supposedly cares about her deeply then manages to spend the entire last book without her. Would have served him right if she'd ended up among the dead

- They did Hagrid dirty. He starts as this cool big old gamekeeper who takes a shine to Harry. quite quickly he becomes The Crying Guy. oh he’s huge and rough- but he has a sensitive side! he’s just a big old softie! who’d a thunk it??? if i have to read one more time about the large tears rolling down Hagrid’s cheeks, each big enough to fill a teacup etc I’m hurling the book out the window

- speaking of, I never, ever need to read about Harry’s scar throbbing ever again. twice, three times- it’s enough. when he wakes up in the white mist-world talking to dead Dumbledore and he reaches up and doesn’t have a scar i was like 🎶 HALLELUJAH

can’t wait for my wee girl to be old enough to want to read these and then spend years trying not to yell about how all harry does is defend his elite private school and the horrible racist status quo it supports from having to make any sort of change and then grows up to be a cop so he can do it some more

and also that rowling is a blairite terf

I read all the books and enjoyed them but nothing stopped JK's horrible politics and generally shitty world-view soaking thru. She did one of her usual Twitter "body-shaming women is bad" things a couple of months ago which a friend approvingly shared and I bit my lip because I didn't wanna be that guy but I was gagging to shout about how she wrote seven books where one of the marks of the Dursleys's wickedness is "lol they fat"

She is a fucking mare, don't start me on this detective shite.

https://i.imgur.com/1AlWxfi.jpg

lol

lol

(for the record, gender is real)

if j.k. rowling tried to make an album based on the harry potter novels it would be so fucking awful

btw I didn't get into all the house elf / snape's hooked nose etc stuff because I figure it's all been hashed out plenty; ditto everyone being straight; but yes it is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC.

lol when dobby dies and rowling tries to make it into a Big Moment and has harry really drinking in his grief, it all rings so fucking hollow.

I'm still mad about Hermione and Ron btw - there is absolutely NOTHING between them for like four books. Ron's an idiot. it comes from nowhere. no little clues, no key moment where Ron does something unexpectedly gallant, nothing. it's like jkr really doesn't know her characters. Hermione and George I could see. Ron and Parvati. we're starting to get into that second tier of jkr character now though, the characters with no personalities of their own. God knows how I ever managed to differentiate the voices of Dean and Seamus.

I don't think it's that weird that there's nothing between them at ages 11-14, but then as teens they couple up. All the couplings in Harry Potter seemed as stupid as inconsequential as teenage love so often is. And then at the end it turns out they all married and stayed together forever, and that's when it became shitty...

yes, THAT’s when it became shitty, otm

look it isn't the place of fiction to explore characters' motivations or give them any kind of internal consistency

Matt Bernstein and Natalie Wynn had a pretty good convo about Rowling and the weird obsession of transvestigating, getting into the bizarre implications that the moral panic is generating;

Just been watching this, it's the third of his videos I've seen this week and I like them a lot, really good to have Natalie just chatting and not under pressure to produce another masterpiece, but also I'm afraid I hate his host-read ads, they just seem tonally jarring.

Sorry to even give oxygen to this bigot but I'm really angry about this: https://www.out.com/gay-athletes/jk-rowling-transphobic-speech-barbra-banda

Similar to Khelif situation. Banda was a national and local hero for women's soccer players this year for her incredible season in THE NWSL, winning my hometown the title.

Now, she's rewarded with a hate campaign claiming she's a man, so now in addition to online harassment, we have to worry about Rowling Acolytes showing up at games shouting bullshit at her

ugh.

(nice to see the player's association director coming out strong though)

I've been listening to a podcast called Tested about the history & present of "sex-testing" in women's athletics. It's taking me a while to get through because it's consistently enraging & heartbreaking

Rowling taking an inevitable step towards going full-on QAnon.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/01/jk-rowling-trans-kids/

Yeah, some of this seems the sorta-expected result of getting pushback from one’s shitty position, and then just doubling-down and retreating such that you burrow even further down the rabbit hole. It’s like there’s a need to escalate intensity as a result of the inability to accept non-confirming reactions

naomi wolf syndrom

This should surprise no one: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/06/jk-rowling-donald-trump-trans-sport-ban/

Dumbledore is still gay.

Dumbledoge

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1jt4cpu/jk_rowling_takes_the_day_off_from_harassing_trans/

What a miserable person she is

more like joanne keeps fouling

More like Scary Nutter amirite

Scary Nutter and the Echo Chamber of Brainworms

Quidditch Anon

Haha: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/19/fortnite-leaker-spoiled-harry-potter-crossover-over-j-k-rowlings-trans-views/

Best way to spoil the collaboration is to hack into the mainframe and delete all of the Harry Potter content

somebody should tell jkr kids are changing their gender with polyjuice potion

Precisely why I will never stop criticising “feminist” transphobes.

At least 12 Women’s Institute (WI) groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.

Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.

Branches said they felt forced to shut after the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) confirmed that, from April, membership will be restricted to those registered female at birth. Several plan to relaunch as independent social groups.

The WI is one of the UK’s largest voluntary organisations, with thousands of local branches and about 180,000 members nationwide.