JK Rowling is roasted with very NSFW jokes
The author is being taken to task over her comments that Grindelwald and Dumbledore were involved in 'an intense relationship'.
JK Rowling attends the UK premiere of ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ at Cineworld Leicester Square on November 13, 2018 in London, England. Picture: John Phillips / Getty Images
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been making some pretty big announcements about the characters in her novels and people on Twitter aren’t having any of it.
She is currently facing backlash for her comments during an interview she gave as part of a special feature for the BluRay release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Rowling took the opportunity to reveal that Harry’s mentor, Dumbledore, was involved in a pretty intense relationship with Grindelwald, which has fans fuming that “her characters from her books and movies are gay everywhere except the books, movies”.
"But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight 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." (Continue)
— The Rowling Library (@rowlinglibrary) March 17, 2019
"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 sense of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationship."
— The Rowling Library (@rowlinglibrary) March 17, 2019
Fans took the opportunity to point out to Rowling that claiming her characters are gay years after the books were published with no indication of their sexuality whatsoever was not inclusivity and went on to make some pretty funny, yet extremely not safe for work, jokes about the whole thing.
I'm sick of Rowling and her half-assed inclusivity. It doesn't count if she's telling us after the fact. That's not being an ally. That's trying to get brownie points. She loses nothing this way. Put it in the text or don't talk about it all. Same thing with Hermione's race.
— Star Boi (@Femme_Queer) March 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1107135318363385856
Nobody:
JK Rowling: Dobby can deepthroat a Nimbus 2000— David Hughes (@david8hughes) March 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1107328705544757248
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