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Why devoted 'Harry Potter' fans feel betrayed by J.K. Rowling and the 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise
- Fans hold long been frustrated by the lack of LGBTQ characters in J.K. Rowling's work.
- Rowling said she always "thought of Dumbledore as gay" after the concluding book came out.
- 10 years later, Dumbledore is a traits in the "Fantastic Beasts" movie franchise.
- And fans are at a breaking indicate when it comes to the perceived refusal of putting an overtly male lover version of Dumbledore on screen.
- INSIDER spoke with several gay "Harry Potter" fans who explained why they're upset.
J.K. Rowling and the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise were already wading in controversy over Johnny Depp's continued presence in the movies, but now fans are at a breaking point after learning that Dumbledore's sexuality wouldn't be openly explored in the coming sequel.
Director David Yates told Entertainment Weekly that "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Crimes of Grindelwald" would not make it "explicitly" clear Dumbledore is gay, the fandom reacted strongly (and mostly negatively).
"Not explicitly," Yates told Entertainment Weekly, referencing whether th
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I don’t reflect one could have gotten through this past week and not heard about the new Harry Potter script book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Many have loved the book and many acquire spoken up about the homoerotic subtext which never becomes fully realized. Tariq Kyle breaks it down with minimal spoilers.
Instead, we’re left with another Harry Potter story that doesn’t directly show us a unpartnered member of the LGBTQ community. Sure, if she wanted to, J.K. Rowling could announce in a few years that [character name redacted for potential spoilers] is gay, but that 👏 just 👏 doesn’t 👏 count. Telling your readers and/or audience a few years later that a character has been gay this entire time doesn’t equal voice, because you weren’t characterizing that community when you wrote it.
It’s important that we represent the LGBTQ community with central characters that already exist in the main story arc, so that people reading or watching these stories understand just how normal the community is. If you announce that a character is gay a
Harry Potter is Gay: An Investigation of Queer Fan Culture
Not long after J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book on June 26, 1997, The Boy Who Lived exploded into an international phenomenon. Teachers read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to wide-eyed students and parents read it aloud to put their children to sleep, continuing to turn the pages into the night. So many people wanted to abscond to Harry’s magical planet where nearly anything was possible – and these people began to respond to this universe in very real, critical ways. For some fans, prefer those at MuggleNet.com, that meant creating websites and publishing books containing theories of what might take place to sidekick Ron Weasley, for some it meant singing songs about whether Severus Snape is nice or bad, and for others, it meant creating queer fan works.
Queer fan works in response to the Harry Potter series come in a variety of forms: fan fiction, fan art, fan videos, fan theatre, fan advocacy, and fan music. I will mainly focus on fan fiction, since it is the most usual form of queer fan reactions to Harry Potter. As both a fan of Harry Potter and a queer theorist, it is
Five “Harry Potter” Characters I Read as LGBTQ
There are lots of LGBTQ readings of Harry Potter out there, and some of the popular ones involve Drarry (Draco and Harry), Sirius Black as pansexual, and Charlie Weasley as asexual. Of course, everyone has their own ships and headcanons, and there is no shortage of remarkable fan art depicting them. Here are a couple of the characters that I read as LGBTQ, and I strive to base my interpretations as much as achievable on cues from the text.
1. Colin Creevey
Colin Creevey is overenthusiastic about everything, but his obsession with Harry seems like an obvious 11-year-old crush to me. Memorizing his schedule, taking pictures of him, trying to bring him grapes in the hospital wing – how else does a middle schooler know how to reveal his affection? Later on, Colin seems to tranquil down a bit and shows a more mellow admiration of Harry, and I imagine that by then he has moved on to other crushes and relationships.
2. Marietta Edgecombe
Why does Marietta come with Cho to DA lessons even though she clearly doesn’t want to be there? Why does she tell on the DA after six months of attendin
Harry Potter fans explore gender and sexuality online
Harry Potter has a huge body of followers on the internet – often referred to as fandom. Many of these followers record so-called fanfiction, stories that are built on the plot, characters and space in the books.
“This is fiction written by fans, for other fans, and most often without any financial involvement,” says Jennifer Duggan.
Duggan has studied these fans in her PhD thesis, in which she has focused on sexual minorities and gender minorities within the Harry Potter fandom.
“I am interested in how they convert the characters’ sexuality and gender, but also in how they change the characters’ ethnicity when they develop the Harry Potter existence in their possess fanfiction,” says Duggan.
Difficult to study adolescent people
“Many people belonging to the Harry Potter fandom are transsexual, queer and intersexual, or they have a fluctuating gender identity."
The amount of people belonging to a gender minority is larger than in general society, Duggan explains. But we still know very brief about the fandom members’ gender, since it is hard to get a full overview of