Neat Comment from Rowling on Dumbledore and Snape

SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this if you don’t want Harry Potter storyline revealed.

I read this pretty neat comment today from Rowling:

“I love Dumbledore more for his frailties but it was important I think to show, and it was part of Harry becoming a man to realize that even this man he revered is alone, had his frailties, had made his mistakes. After all, Dumbledore is, although he seems to be so benign for six books, he’s quite a Machiavellian figure really. He’s pulling a lot of strings. Harry has been a puppet to an extent but I think, I hope I led the reader to a place in the seventh book where they could actually feel sympathy for Snape rather than Dumbledore. That was the trajectory of that story that I was aiming for.”

Read it here.

A Fall from Great Heights

Harry Potter has become less powerful as a Christian resource since JK Rowling has announced the gay status of Albus Dumbledore.

The resurrection themes are sOOOOOO strong, that it had been a happy hope-filled set of months since the conclusion of the series.

I had tried to ignore the ire in her voice as I had heard her refer so negatively to the Christians that have disliked the series due to “magic.”  But she has pushed further, saying that this will make fundamentalists even less likely to like her works.

I am not a fundamentalist.  And I don’t dislike homosexuals [don't misread that sentence - I do care for homosexual people].

But this work which has been such a nice way to see christianity publicly written to millions, is suddenly tarnished with something so problematic.

It is not that it is bad to have a gay character.  It is that it serves as a PROMOTION of an immoral practice…

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