JK Rowling reveals Hogwarts secret

[Steel_Wind]

I disagree. As it stands in the text, he is an exemplar of what a person can be, without reference to sexuality. That's kind of my point - reading the text, there is no allusion to his sexuality, so that isn't part of the character displayed to us.

Dumbledore's great romantic relationship was with Grindelwald, which certainly was depicted as an uncommonly close, intense and intimate friendship.

Slughorn is also offered up as a close friend in the past; who also exhibits rather stereotypical gay socialite tendencies.

In any event, if you are saying that Dumbledore is depicted as what a an examplar of a person can be without explicit reference to their sexuality, than you have made as strong a case as one can make for JK Rowling.

 

[Relique du Madde]

It's not easy to go from being a nobody to being among the richest authors in history.

It's easly if you write a decent book, get a good review and a good pr person then have scholastic books put your book on the front cover of that catalog they send out to every elementary and middle school in the English speaking world.

 

[TracerBullet42]

It's easly if you write a decent book, get a good review and a good pr person then have scholastic books put your book on the front cover of that catalog they send out to every elementary and middle school in the English speaking world.

Come on, now...easy? I believe we're abusing the word easy.

Sure, it's not great literature, but it's also not awful.

Sometimes stuff lies somewhere in the middle, you know?

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Originally Posted by DonTadow
(. . .) and its really difficult for parents to tell theri children why.

They can add it to "the talk."

Which, truthfully, will be yet another thing foisted upon the school system to teach the students rather than the parents doing it.... :\

 

[DonTadow]

In her defense, she did manage to write 4200 pages of fiction in a fairly short period of time, and she did manage to make them enjoyable enough for readers of all age to read.

I'd say she most certainly is not a hack. I've always figured that those that accuse her of such are merely jealous of her. It's not easy to go from being a nobody to being among the richest authors in history. And it's not easy to produce seven books, totally 4,200 pages (if going by hard cover), in as short of time as she did. Sure, she's no Tolkien, but to call her a hack is rather wrong.

Being around the writing business for a while, I"m betting that she has used a ghost writer for more than half of the material. You'd be surprised whose really written your favorites

 

[Rykion]

Being around the writing business for a while, I"m betting that she has used a ghost writer for more than half of the material. You'd be surprised whose really written your favorites

Wow you've gone from calling Rowling a "thief hack writer" to saying she doesn't write her own books. I think we get that you don't like her. You are making a very serious allegation here. If your only proof is "being around the writing business," you probably shouldn't be making it.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Wow you've gone from calling Rowling a "thief hack writer" to saying she doesn't write her own books. I think we get that you don't like her. You are making a very serious allegation here. If your only proof is "being around the writing business," you probably shouldn't be making it.

It's not uncommon, really. That said, I read books 1-5 when 6 came out. There was a noticeable change around book 3 or 4. Either she took some instruction, or gained a "handler" or ghost writer. Don't think of it as someone writing the book, think of it as an editor editing the book extensively.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

To be fair, there were plenty of signifiers in the final book. (The whole deal where Dumbledore's brother explained about Grindelwald? Fairly reeked of UST, IMO.)

And I think it's awesome that such a high-profile person as JK Rowling made such an open declaration about the sexuality of her characters, and made it a non-issue. (I always enjoy hearing people's thoughts on their creations, anyway, and this was just an added bonus.)

Indeed, if she HAD put it in the books, it would have felt forced, since Dumbledore's sexuality doesn't especially figure into Harry's story.

 

[DonTadow]

Wow you've gone from calling Rowling a "thief hack writer" to saying she doesn't write her own books. I think we get that you don't like her. You are making a very serious allegation here. If your only proof is "being around the writing business," you probably shouldn't be making it.

There's a reason why ghost writing is amore lucrative market than actual writing. You sign contracts to remain anonomous. But I know for a fact that a good portion of her later books were derived from notes and ghost writers. I met one at a writers convention in Jamaica.

Even better info is that this ghost writer used to be a teen fiction writer

 

[Rykion]

It's not uncommon, really. That said, I read books 1-5 when 6 came out. There was a noticeable change around book 3 or 4. Either she took some instruction, or gained a "handler" or ghost writer. Don't think of it as someone writing the book, think of it as an editor editing the book extensively.

It's not unusual for a first time author to change in quality over a series of books. Even experienced authors can vary greatly in quality in a series of books. Any good author is likely to run their ideas in front of someone they trust, and get suggestions. Many hire people to help them in that regard. That is a far cry from hiring someone to write more than half the material as Don Tadow suggested. That is a serious allegation against someone whose claim to fame is being an author.