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[thetreacletart]

I have a very varied friendslist. From, “No one is gay in the books, you freak. Can’t you read?” to “Everyone is gay in the books, you freak. Can’t you read?” Most of us fall somewhere in between. I think it’s unrealistic to think that no one is gay in an entire universe of books. Thinking everyone is gay is unrealistic too. It’s fun mind

Comments

[graculus]

Like we're not all very capable of ignoring the heck out of bits from the book canon, let alone the ongoing pronouncements from Mount Rowling?

Not dead, also epilogue didn't happen, that is all. ;)

[thetreacletart]

So NOT dead. :oD

[arionrhod]

I'm with you on that, 100%. It's over, Jo, so just let it be so that the rest of us can go about fixing what you broke. ;)

DEFINITELY not dead. Not not not not not!!!!!

[thistle_verse]

You are NOT the only one. I think it's a little sad that she has to explicate the backstories and secrets of her characters NOW, after the story is over. I understand the impulse, but an author should let the story speak for itself and let english majors and fanficers talk and write about their possibly sexualities, secrets, motivations, etc.

If she'd shown him to be gay during the series, THEN it would have been relevant. And I don't much buy that she's making an argument for tolerance (with DD being gay, I believe she's made that case other ways)...not AFTER she's been paid and reviewed and it's over.

That said, I think DD being gay is terribly interesting and I like the idea.

[joesther]

As far as I’m concerned book canon is the only canon. If she couldn’t manage to get it in several thousand pages - in seven books - then let it go. If you want to give us a glimpse of a post book seven world then write another book.

I'm with you. It kinda feels to me as though she was tired of not being hounded about what was going to happen in the next book, and decided to give us a morsel, that oh, by the way happened to fit into the canon she'd written. Don't get me wrong, my little gay activist heart is so very happy, but it just doesn't feel... right? Yeah. Right.

I just figure the books are done, and since they're the only source of canon I believe, since they're the only ones that 1) she's been (relatively) consistent on, and 2) everyone gets in an evenly shared manner, no matter if they're in Timbuktu or the US or UK (and canon should, I believe, be evenly shared), it's time for her to leave the universe alone. Well, unless she wants to write something else, which I would never say no to. :)

[lina_granger]

there’s some part of me that wishes she’s shut the hell up

Amen. What's the point of a sort and fluffy epilogue if she's going to share things with us afterwards? She should have included all the character and plot info in the books and just comment on her views of the characters in interviews. She chose to have the epilogue sort and meaningless and I respected that, without being annoyed like most of the fandom. But she's now starting to annoy me with all the "after" revelations. If you wanted to share, woman, why didn't you just write?