"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.

oh come on! re-read that, and then think about the fact that
-it's a children's book series
-it'd make him GAY PAEDOPHILE HERO which would be suicide as an author
-it's dumb ARE YOU DUMB
-Dumbledore may be gay, but it doesn't mean he gets a boner for every guy, even if he's like someone he knew once
-he'd be strong enough not to fall for a student
-the theory seems like you've just made this tenuous connection GAY TO GAAAY

Wth!? Make this hetero for a second. If a really really old chick is tutoring a KID boy... is she going to have feelings for him?
Just because he's gay doesn't make him a pedo.

edit:  also

The same people who called D&D anti-Christian.

Turkey Warns Against Pokemon


ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's health minister urged TV stations Saturday to replace Pokemon cartoons with other children's programs after a 7-year-old girl jumped off a balcony apparently believing she was a Pokemon character with superhuman powers. Seda Aykanat, who jumped off her fifth-floor balcony Friday and broke her leg, was the second Turkish child to jump off a balcony apparently to imitate Pokemon characters -- cartoon animals with special powers. Earlier, a 4-year-old boy sustained injuries after a similar jump. Health Minister Osman Durmus already had asked ministry experts to study the effect of the Pokemon cartoon on children. The experts concluded Friday that the cartoon distanced children from reality, confused them by presenting both ''good and bad heroes,'' and desensitized them to violence, daily Hurriyet reported Saturday. Full story at: http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/international/ap934.htm

uh...so what? characters in books are supposed to be like people in real life to an extent, and shock and awe theres gay people in real life too.

I'm sorry, but both of you are making unwarranted assumtions about human sexuality which only reflect the socially acceptable standards of the day. The moral values you are attempting to advance have little or no reflection on what can be, and usually is felt naturally as a human being. Humans reach physical maturity during puberty, which had already occured to Harry by the events I had cited. Given this, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for someone to feel sexually attracted to another physically mature person they spend any amount of close time with, even without being a "paedo" and especially if that person reminded him of someone he had a strong sexual attraction to previously.

Personally, I think this kind of subtext would make Rowling even better of an author then I already think she is.

If it wasn't evident in the actual books I don't understand why the hell this matters now at all.

I'm sorry, but both of you are making unwarranted assumtions about human sexuality which only reflect the socially acceptable standards of the day. The moral values you are attempting to advance have little or no reflection on what can be, and usually is felt naturally as a human being. Humans reach physical maturity during puberty, which had already occured to Harry by the events I had cited. Given this, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for someone to feel sexually attracted to another physically mature person they spend any amount of close time with, even without being a "paedo" and especially if that person reminded him of someone he had a strong sexual attraction to previously.

Personally, I think this kind of subtext would make Rowling even better of an author then I already think she is.

The Christian hate groups on TCGs are retarded. Didn't the pope praise M:TG as an effective learning tool for developmental children? I mean, you're life's gotta suck to be playing into your twenties, but I don't see why the religious hate.

why are you sorry lmaaaao.

again, you've just made this link from "HE'S GAY?" to "his closeness to another male must mean... OH MY GOD IT ALL MAKES SENSE".

in a series of books about witches and wizards.

for children.

right and wrong are just words, preached to us by an unthinking, unquestioning flock of sheeps.

heh adeline.... please spare us the your posturing stances of moral superiority.  like myself, safari has finally become disillusioned enough with "the system" as we free thinkers call it, to finally begin to question the world around us.  you see, the concepts you're trying to force on us in this topic have absolutely zero basis in reality.  they are merely arbitrary judgements; metaphysical in nature, with no proper bearing on the world.  perhaps someday you will lay down the mantle of the philistine and, like us, shed your inhibitions and assumptions about society, for as my freshman philosophy professor down at the local community college once said... right and wrong are just words, preached to us by an unthinking, unquestioning flock of sheeps.