gay wizard is gay

I need to go back and check how they treat the 'Squibs' - by the wizarding definition they are probably classed as 'disabled'. Argus Filch and Mrs. Figg are the obvious examples - one's a mean old scroat, and the other puts forward a similar public persona (while working for the good guys).

Obviously we have a host of 'oppressed minorities' represented by the House Elves
 
Does anyone reckon she did it to either get people to read the books more/buy the books more/talk about the books more? Maybe she decided after she had finished for the above reasons?

Call me an old skeptic!
 
I suspect its the opposite. She decided ages ago, that dumbledore was gay, but decided not to annouce in order to not put people off reading the books...
 
Don't you go calling Sam gay :P he had lots of kids to Rosie.
My mates dog is called Aslan and i swear the thing is gay, but towards male humans, there is an amusing side storie but it's probably not suitable :P
 
Only because his true love (frodo) had gone off to live with the elves..

Arguably Bi- rather than fully gay, but that depends on whether you think the marriage to Rosie was just a political sham arrangement to help him gain his mayoral office..
 
Aslan is obviously a bit gay. Then again, he could just be very christian. I have difficulty telling the difference sometimes. No problem with gay people or most christians for that matter. Just one acts a lot like the other and vice versa. Don't believe me? Two words: Alan Titchmarsch.
 
Never thought I'd ever hear anyone comparing Aslan and Alan Titchmarsh....


Oh come on! He's a big raging fruit and you know it....
 
I was struck by the dramatic increase in the number of non-white pupils at Hogwarts after the first film. I think the first film had one Token Black Kid, but the second one had several, and..... Asian kids too!

So is that (a) 'political correctness', (b) a cynical attempt to maximise the audience, or (c) a genuine (if belated) attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience?

(If FasterStronger has still got me on 'ignore' then he might never know that I'm actually trying to take one of his questions seriously. )
 
could be that by the time the second film came out, the later books had been released where chinese and indian pupils had become recurring, relevent, named characters and the film makers realised that Hogwarts was a tad more multi-cultural.
 
I'm getting the impression that the first movie focused more closely on Harry specifically, and the later ones involved a lot more large groups and things. That might have something to do with it, or maybe I just can't remember.
 
I haven't read the books, and never will, so I've only got the films to go on. (And I only saw them out of parental duty - honest!)

Hogwarts has what I'd call a very 1950's English public school feel to it in the films, which might be why it didn't occurr to them initially to make the cast more representative of England in the noughties. Although in the 'best' traditions of English schoolboy fiction they do have an 'amusing' Token Northern Boy and an 'amusing' Token Thick Paddy.
 
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