Not for Dumbledorks

HE SAYS

Aldrin Cardona

11/21/2007

In this time and age, who would have cared — or worse, reacted violently, against JK Rowling’s admission that Dumbledore, which according to my cheat sheet was one of the favorite characters in her Harry Potter books, is gay.

Not you, I suppose. Not I, I believe. Not my self-declared homophobic neighbor who, like me, did not care much about Harry Potter rather than arguing about the country’s future under a fake president would care, I’m sure.

There are other things to think about that living in fantasyland. One squatter in Malacañang lives in it and continues to believe in unicorns and flying dragons, as well as in favorable reviews authored by hacks and fake economic claims made by cronies. Harry Potter had none of them, I am told, just a magic stick and some spell that drive evil forces out of scene, not presidents out of Malacañang.

I would wish to have one of them, those magic sticks.

Maybe they could whisk away some evil spirits out of the Palace’s hallowed grounds, and take with them some bad memories from various occupations, to the dark years of martial law to Gloria’s illegitimate stay in power and some other issues worse than talking about gays.

Dumbledore is no screaming, excuse the word, faggot.

He, according to my cheat sheet, in fact, helped save their magicland from the dark powers of Gellert Grindelwald, flying brooms and streaks of lighting included, not to forget the sound effects.

Rowling’s declarations, substituting for Dumbledore in openly declaring himself as out, an opportunity he failed to receive as Rowling had declared her seventh Potter book her last, was met with mixed reactions.

Audience in a Carnegie Hall speech in New York wase first stunned when Rowlings declared Dumbledore is gay,” but the deafening silence was soon swamped by loud applause from the same stunned set, proof that homosexuality is as accepted in America as Afro-Americans are now taken as co-equals in less than 50 years since they were segregated from the whites, who are by no means no superior to any other race.

They can now live on the same square with more tolerance. Man, even in South Africa where apartheid was the spoken word some 20 years ago, mixed people show a semblance of respect toward races and racism is fast becoming a thing of the past.

If we can erase racism, then we can erase homophobia.

Rowlings, a strong woman who rose from poverty through her stories hooked on fantasy but more so in political statements, was brave enough to shatter the barrier through her declaration. She spiked her story, meant for children at that, with a character, Dumbledore, who did not openly claim he’s gay but admitted it, through his creator, later on.

According to Rowlings, Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, as a teener spook but was “terribly let down” when Grindlewald became more interested in the dark arts than good.

Dumbledore set out to fight his amore, earning friends along the way, including Potter, who was to become the main focus of Rowling’s stories.

If Dumbledore is gay, then he is a decent one.

Potter books did not mention abuses or put some love angle between Potter and Dumbledore, one that would have been so yucky, even in this time and age of open acceptance of gays, and excuse the word if it really exists, faggots.

Dumbledore was just there, a late admission of his sexuality was not made to jack up a Rowling’s destined classics. He was just there and Rowling’s had been true to herself.

Dumbledore’s life is his, but many others shared it.

Whether he’s really gay, or had Rowling chosen to keep him straight.

Still, I’m not reading the book.

Am busy with my third reading of Joan Maglipon’s Primed. Man I should admit, I am moved everytime.

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