horrified to realise they made alternative endings for British and American audiences.
Good god. How ridiculous. I never knew that.
In terms of actual surprise value, this is up there with the facts that I am short, JFK was a man whore and the moon is pretty and shiny.
For me the surprise - and it was a HUGE surprise - was not that he could be gay, because, yes, he is something of a cliche in that respect - but that JKR had actually considered that overt homosexuality was possible within her universe. I hadn't seen a single hint of that.
Complaining that his love story was a tragic one - well, I've not read much of the fandom commentage yet, but I did rather expect that. The fact is though that through its inherent tragicness, Albus/Gellert is one of the most powerful love stories in the series. One of the only powerful ones, actually. Harry/Ginny got a tiny edge of her attention even in their getting together scene, Tonks/Lupin fell into a heap, but Albus/Gellert made a huge impact even before we knew outright that it was a romance.
The other powerful ones, for me, are Hermione/Ron and Severus/Lily. And one of those is as tragic (and unrequited) as they come.
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Good god. How ridiculous. I never knew that.
In terms of actual surprise value, this is up there with the facts that I am short, JFK was a man whore and the moon is pretty and shiny.
For me the surprise - and it was a HUGE surprise - was not that he could be gay, because, yes, he is something of a cliche in that respect - but that JKR had actually considered that overt homosexuality was possible within her universe. I hadn't seen a single hint of that.
Complaining that his love story was a tragic one - well, I've not read much of the fandom commentage yet, but I did rather expect that. The fact is though that through its inherent tragicness, Albus/Gellert is one of the most powerful love stories in the series. One of the only powerful ones, actually. Harry/Ginny got a tiny edge of her attention even in their getting together scene, Tonks/Lupin fell into a heap, but Albus/Gellert made a huge impact even before we knew outright that it was a romance.
The other powerful ones, for me, are Hermione/Ron and Severus/Lily. And one of those is as tragic (and unrequited) as they come.