{"id":135,"date":"2007-10-21T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2007-10-21T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T19:09:00","slug":"just-imagine-the-fan-fiction-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just Imagine the Fan Fiction Now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this weekend, Harry Potter fans world round had yet another bombshell to digest &#8211; JK Rowling casually mentioned that Fawkes the Phoenix wasn&#8217;t the only one flaming in the Headmaster&#8217;s office &#8211; <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,2196020,00.html\">Albus Dumbledore was gay<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>To this I have to say, well, duh.  I&#8217;m sorry, but the older, unattached, distinguished English gentleman thing was a good hint.  The flaming pet, the purple velvet robes, and I&#8217;m not even going to start on a deconstruction of the words &#8220;Head Master&#8221; &#8211; let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s a reason Hollywood initially tapped Ian McKellen for the role.  <\/p>\n<p>Did I just say &#8220;tapped Ian McKellen&#8221;?  That may have been over the top.  Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s look at the current actor playing Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore &#8211; Michael Gambon.  His last major role was in The Good Shepard, where he played Dr. Fredericks, an older, unattached, distinguished English gentleman.  And professor.  And gay man.   <\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re seeing a pattern here.  The best part, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, is that we&#8217;ve named one of the family cats Albus.  (Yes, the other one is Flitwick.)  Great &#8211; I have a gay cat!  I can&#8217;t imagine anything cooler.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of this bombshell will be the inevitable reaction of the <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.elroy.net\/ehr\/fighttheright.html\">Christian Right<\/a>, now that they know that Harry Potter doesn&#8217;t just have magic &#8211; it has GAY magic!!!  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan for years, but JK Rowling is my new hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this weekend, Harry Potter fans world round had yet another bombshell to digest &#8211; JK Rowling casually mentioned that Fawkes the Phoenix wasn&#8217;t the only one flaming in the Headmaster&#8217;s office &#8211; Albus Dumbledore was gay. To this I have to say, well, duh. I&#8217;m sorry, but the older, unattached, distinguished English gentleman thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}