J.K. Rowling's latest Dumbledore comment feels like a cop-out | By Holly Thomas for CNNOpinion
Holly Thomas is a writer and editor based in London. She tweets @HolstaT. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.
There's nothing like watching a legacy crumble in real time, and these days, one feels spoiled for choice. This week, it is J.K. Rowling's"updates" to the Harry Potter series which has set the world -- or at least, swaths of the internet -- on fire. In an interview to accompany the Blu-Ray edition of"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," Rowling elaborated on an earlier explanation of Dumbledore's relationship with the dark wizard. She said,"Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship."Holly Thomas This has invited some backlash.
The little boy J.K. Rowling can't forget 01:14"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published in 1997, six years before Section 28, a law banning councils and schools in England and Wales from intentionally promoting homosexuality, was repealed in 2003. It would have been very difficult to get an explicit gay romance into a book aimed largely at elementary school-aged children at the time.
Rowling reveals secret manuscript 00:51 For Rowling, the significance of this narrative doesn't appear to lie in Dumbledore's sexuality, but in the amplification of a great betrayal. You get the sense that with these explanations, she simply feels she is filling in the blanks.The broader context into which these new remarks have been released hasn't done Rowling any favors.
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