Harry Potter's JK Rowling Outs Professor Dumbledore: "He's Gay"
Albus Dumbledore Comes Out Of The Closet
Wow, and I just thought he was British.
Yes, it's true, the beloved Hogwart's Head Master and mentor to Harry Potter is reportedly gay, and apparently carried a torch for his former friend turned rival Grindelwald, whom Dumbledore eventually was forced to duel and subsequently slayed. Talk about heartache. This may come as a shock to many fans of the Harry Potter series, but was understood by the author from the beginning. Rowling goes on to explain the essence of this relationship had much to do with Dumbledore's reluctance to see the "bad" in Grindelwald, as he was blinded by love. Hmmm...love is a mysterious thing.
So how did this revelation come about? The fabulously wealthy, though quite reclusive author was giving a talk to a group of 1600 or so students at New York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, when a student asked a profound question. From the Guardian post:
After reading briefly from her mega-selling book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on Friday night, Rowling took questions from an audience of 1,600 students. A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular headmaster of Hogwarts School: 'Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?'The author replied: 'My truthful answer to you...I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.' The audience reportedly fell silent - then erupted into prolonged applause.
Rowling, 42, continued: 'Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad wizard he defeated long ago], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.'
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