Comments on: From Hogwarts to Tucker Elementary http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DivaJean http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/comment-page-1/#comment-72780 DivaJean Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:02:53 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/#comment-72780 That's what slash fiction is all about Dana. I sure that infinately more slash fiction will be written on Dumbledore now. That’s what slash fiction is all about Dana.

I sure that infinately more slash fiction will be written on Dumbledore now.

]]> By: Dana http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/comment-page-1/#comment-72774 Dana Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:18:21 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/#comment-72774 Good point--and it's worth noting that Rowling revealed this in the context of answering a reader's question about whether Dumbledore ever found love. She wasn't doing a specific exposé on gay characters in her books--so you're right, there are a lot of unanswered questions, and room for speculation, should we wish to do so. Good point–and it’s worth noting that Rowling revealed this in the context of answering a reader’s question about whether Dumbledore ever found love. She wasn’t doing a specific exposé on gay characters in her books–so you’re right, there are a lot of unanswered questions, and room for speculation, should we wish to do so.

]]> By: Shereen Samuels http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/comment-page-1/#comment-72772 Shereen Samuels Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:58:20 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/2007/10/24/from-hogwarts-to-tucker-elementary/#comment-72772 If Dumbledore being gay is taken in the context of the book - I mean, how many 12 year olds know who their teachers are dating? Or care? In the Hogwarts world, who did McGonagall date? Or Slughorn? Or Sprout? None of them had illuminated personal lives, because the teachers' personal lives were largely irrelevant to the book, and to the lives of the kids who were central. The book is told from the perspective of children, and children never want to think of their parents or teachers as people with sex lives. I mean, I recognize the opportunity provided by a gay character in the most successful kids' books in history, but I think context still matters. We don't know that Grendel was Albus' only love affair; it was the only one that mattered to the story. He may have had other, very functional and happy relationships between the ages of twenty and eighty. And hopefully that can be pointed out as we and our kids read the stories, too. If Dumbledore being gay is taken in the context of the book – I mean, how many 12 year olds know who their teachers are dating? Or care? In the Hogwarts world, who did McGonagall date? Or Slughorn? Or Sprout? None of them had illuminated personal lives, because the teachers’ personal lives were largely irrelevant to the book, and to the lives of the kids who were central. The book is told from the perspective of children, and children never want to think of their parents or teachers as people with sex lives.
I mean, I recognize the opportunity provided by a gay character in the most successful kids’ books in history, but I think context still matters. We don’t know that Grendel was Albus’ only love affair; it was the only one that mattered to the story. He may have had other, very functional and happy relationships between the ages of twenty and eighty. And hopefully that can be pointed out as we and our kids read the stories, too.

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