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Posted July 3rd, 2008 by
Filled under: Books
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own weblog / journal so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.”
Posted October 21st, 2007 by
Filled under: Books
In what I’m sure is going to please slash fan fiction communities world wide, J K Rowling revealed Friday night that the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is in fact Gay. J K Rowling revealed the news during a question and answer session at Carnegie Hall in New York.
A 19 year old from Colorado, asked “Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?”
J K Rowling replied that:
“My truthful answer to you…I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.”
“Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.”
“Yeah, that’s how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, “I knew a girl once, whose hair…” I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!”"
“Just imagine the fan fiction now.”
I personally didn’t expect this, but can only applaud J K Rowling’s decision.
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books