J.K. Rowling Faces Backlash
J.K. Rowling is facing backlash on social media for recent comments she made about the sexuality of two of her characters. For an interview in a DVD and Blu-ray feature on her film “The Crimes of Grindelwald,” the writer said Dumbledore and Grindelwald may have had a “sexual dimension” to their relationship.
Twitter account @rowlinglibrary shared bits of the interview: “Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship.”
“But as it happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows really what the other person is feeling. You can’t know, you can believe you know,” Rowling continued. “So I’m less interested in the sexual side — though I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship — than I am in the sense of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationship.”
What upset fans however, is how despite Rowling claiming that the characters are gay, the sexual relationship was not made obvious in “The Crimes of Grindelwald” or the books.
Rowling, who is known for announcing additions and finer details to her books and movies on social media and in interviews, declared Dumbledore was gay in 2007. This came 10 years after her first novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” was published in the U.K. in 1997.
By: Maytinee Kramer
