Hey, Dumbledore is gay.
I’m about two chapters from the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and what I thought was going to happen hasn’t happened yet! I wonder if it will. I did cry at one point, which is new for me with Harry Potter. The middle of the book is slow (that said I whizzed through it), but the ending is explosions, excitement, and emotion aplenty.
I had to put it down to take care of the Fecklet and can’t wait to finish it with dinner tonight.
It’s nice to know that Dumbledore is gay though. I didn’t really suspect it. I guess it was his haircut that fooled me.
I have some quibbles with JK Rowling’s writing style (especially her use of punctuation!! AAGH!!) , but I like her world and her characters and that she knows lots more about them than she reveals in her books.
Julie – it’s fun knowing more about characters than you actually put in the books. I often go about thinking about all the couples in mine, wondering how they’re getting on, how their kids are etc (is that mad?). The trouble is right now, I can’t shift two people from my head to write a new book. I can’t let go of them!
Dumbledore is GAY??? Well I completely missed that…!
Opened my World Books catalogue yesterday and discovered One Night Stand featured hugely as well as a photograph of the author. Gave me such a buzz. Congratuations, Julie.
Oh I wasn’t surprised, but then I had read the last book and so of figured that his relationship with Grimwald was very Brideshead Revisited.
I do think after his traumatic experience though, he became asexual rather than active. He had been betrayed by his first passionate love.
But it also ventures in the TMI category. It wasn’t necessary for the story.
No, it wasn’t necessary for the story at all, Michelle. But I do like that JK Rowling knew it, anyway.
Sorry if it surprised you, Christina.
Phillipa, I can have trouble getting rid of characters, too, though I’m not sure I think about them in the future in that way…I do miss them an awful lot, though, when I’ve finished writing. Good luck getting on with the next one.
Hey! That’s cool, Liz, I wasn’t sure when it was going in. It’s funky, isn’t it? I’m excited that being editor’s choice for a book club will get me new readers (I hope!). I need to figure out how to link to the online version…
Dumbledore is gay?! LOL
which bit made you cry? I had a cry too when I read it, at a part I certainly wouldn’t have thought would make me cry beforehand…I won’t say because I can’t remember whereabouts in the book it happened and I don’t want to give anything away!
Yes, I like that JK knows stuff about her characters that she doesn’t necessarily put on the page. I always try to have a secret about my hero and heroine. Makes them seem more real, somehow, if they have a side turned away from the reader.
And JK’s Q&A at Carnegie Hall sounds as if it produced several gems, as set out on the Leaky Cauldron website. My favourite (revealing what a deeply trivial person I am, I fear)is:
Q: In the Goblet of Fire Dumbledore said his brother was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was practicing on that goat?
JKR: How old are you?
Eight.
JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to keep clean [laughter].
I cried when Harry used the stone, Ruth. What about you?
Jenny, that is hilarious. I think we all know what the real charms were.
I cried then too. And I was shocked beyond measure when **** died. I still have an appalled space in my chest when I think about him.
I did have a wonderfully satisfied feeling at the end, though.
I cried about Dobby. I didn’t even like Dobby…
I shall blame my hormones in true womanly fashion
I blubbed through the whole Dobby section. But then, he always was my favourite.