Gay potter
I’ve been told that I’m a Slytherin, but not because I’m an wicked twink. I didn’t grow up reading Harry Potter, for no other reason than I was probably too active watching Melrose Place and wasting my youth at the mall. I saw no point in catching the Harry Potter movies on the big screen, either.
But with the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald on November 16—and increasingly gag-worthy red carpet appearances by Ezra Miller—I heard rumors that this film was maybe going to be queer as hell. But also, maybe not gay enough. So I figured why not watch every single one of the Harry Potter movies in one homosexual go? What did I hold to lose aside from my grasp on reality and a full week of my life?
Here’s what happened when I hopped on the Hogwarts Express, grabbed a heap of Chocolate Frogs, and watched 17 years worth of this wizarding madness.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
A tabby just turned into Maggie Smith! (Are all cats secretly Maggie Smith?) We meet baby Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter living in a closet, and I feel very seen. Fiona Shaw appears as his aunt looking appreciate Julianne Moore in The Hours, followed by Alan Rickman’s Pr
Why devoted 'Harry Potter' fans feel betrayed by J.K. Rowling and the 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise
- Fans own 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 ultimate book came out.
- 10 years later, Dumbledore is a ethics in the "Fantastic Beasts" movie franchise.
- And fans are at a breaking signal when it comes to the perceived refusal of putting an overtly same-sex attracted 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
Harry Potter is Gay: An Analysis of Queer Fan Culture
Not distant after J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book on June 26, 1997, The Male child 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 place their children to sleep, continuing to turn the pages into the night. So many people wanted to escape to Harry’s magical world where nearly anything was possible – and these people began to respond to this universe in very authentic, critical ways. For some fans, like those at MuggleNet.com, that meant creating websites and publishing books containing theories of what might happen to sidekick Ron Weasley, for some it meant singing songs about whether Severus Snape is good or horrible, 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 activism, and fan music. I will mainly focus on fan fiction, since it is the most shared form of queer fan reactions to Harry Potter. As both a fan of Harry Potter and a queer theorist, it is
J.K. Rowling has confirmed that some of the characters in the "Harry Potter" universe are gay. Some fans, however, are perturbed that these characters don't actually identify as lgbtq+ in the books or movies.
In a special features interview for the "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" BluRay release, Rowling confirmed a relationship between characters Dumbledore and Grindelwald. "Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was ardent, and it was a love relationship," Rowling said. The Twitter account "The Rowling Library" transcribed this section of the interview.
"But as happens in any relationship, gay or unbent or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows really what the other person is feeling. You can't know, you can believe you know," Rowling continued. "So I'm less interested in the sexual side – though I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship – than I am in the feeling of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationship."
Rowling previously revealed Dumbledore was lgbtq+ and even responded to a fan who tweeted they couldn't "see" the headmast