Earlier of this month, Albus Dumbledore headmaster of Howgarts – a leading character in Harry Potter decided to come out of the closet. “J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall...”
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."
"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause. (CNN, 2007)
Although in today’s world we come from various culturAL, religions, sexuality and personality background. This does not mean J. K Rowling should tell her younger target audiences Albus Dumbledore sexuality in the conference after all Harry Potter, is known as a children fantasy book.
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."
"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause. (CNN, 2007)
Although in today’s world we come from various culturAL, religions, sexuality and personality background. This does not mean J. K Rowling should tell her younger target audiences Albus Dumbledore sexuality in the conference after all Harry Potter, is known as a children fantasy book.
According to Schriver (1997), “As readers brought their point of view to bear in interpreting the main ideas of these documents, the representation of the content they formed was radically different from the one document designers had hoped they would construct. But because document designers did not fully consider how their graphic choices might be interpreted from other points of view, they opened the door to interpretations they did not intend.”
It is the same for J. K. Rowling whereby she created a character -Albus Dumbledore whose gay sexuality will create a curiosity within the child, and with such young mind they will think it is fun to be gay and probably start to practice gay relationship in future. As we all know children today are easily influences by the media and entertainment they will tend to use their knowledge to interpret the words and pictures they see. J.K. Rowling should have considered about this matter before announcing the news.
Not just text,images also do have an impact on children, regardless it is the print or electronic media, whether in newspapers, magazines, CD ROMs, public relations materials, advertisement or any form of informational material.(Kress & van Leeuwen 2006) I am not against on gay sexuality. Even though gay marriage and their sexuality is accepted widely by most countries but I do believe as a parent one who prefer their kids to practice healthy relationship in future.
Reference List:
CNN, 2007, Dumbledore is gay, 'Harry Potter' author reveals, New York, viewed on 29 October 2007, <>
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, 'Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication' in Reading images: the grammar of visual design, 2nd edn, Routledge, London.
Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Whiley Computer Pub, New York.
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