You may have heard about the latest kerfuffle over JK Rowling’s statements about Dumbledore. My pastor asked me if I was going to blog about it, but everything I have to say on the subject has been said by Hogwarts Professor in this post. Check it out.
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I just went and read the post. Excellent. I would not have been able to articulate those points but having read them, I agree. Thanks for pointing the way.
Hey! I used the word “kerfluffle” in my post pointing to the Hogwarts Professor, too!
Great minds, etc.
You are too cool for words.
I just read Hogwarts Professor, and it is excellent. There was an interesting point made about finding a Christian meaning in both Harry Potter and in Pinnochio. When I read that, I was reminded of something written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in In Defence of Poetry.
Shelly writes, “At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature. The persons in whom this power resides, may often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, the Power which is seated upon the throne of their own soul. It is impossible to read without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they understood not…”
i first heard about this today… followed your link, linked some more, learned a lot. thanks
I too only heard of this today, and I almost laughed outloud when I did. I enjoyed following your trail of links and found they expounded beautifully, and far more articulately than I ever could, on my initial thought. “How can Dumbledore be homosexual if this is not revealed in the books? Isn’t he a literary character? Then by definition, aren’t his characteristics limited to the literary works we find him in?”
“If the author has hidden her intention so well that only her opining after the fact reveals it to us, then she has missed her chance.”
Yep, that’s what I think too. This whole thing is very silly. And the brewhaha that must be resulting from it is sillier still.
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Hmmm, the net nanny here thinks HogwartsProfessor.com is not safe for work. Now I’m REALLY curious! Must remember to click through from home. (Not that I’d be blog surfing at work. No, never!)
While I did not read any of the Harry Potter books, I have followed things enough to know the basics of the books and I have read and talked to many people about this whole issue. When I saw Rowling discussing it, I kept thinking, is this some sort of afterthought she’s just throwing out there to appease the masses? It was odd at best, and as all commenters here have said, unjustifiable since she didn’t include it in her book. Too little, too late, Ms. Rowling.
oh, thank you, I followed that link and truthfully that’s just sort of what I thought, but had no training to say – so it’s nice that someone said it all and I could just forward it to a few people in my life buzzing about it all…
Thanks for the link. The George MacDonald quote was, of course, perfect.
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