Albus Dumbledore is Gay

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Harry Potter passages take on new meaning
TheStar.com
October 22, 2007
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With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning.

The British author stunned her fans at Carnegie Hall on Friday night when she answered one young reader's question about Dumbledore by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald, whom he had defeated years ago in a bitter fight.

"You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me," Dumbledore says in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in Rowling's record-breaking fantasy series.

The news brought gasps, then applause at Carnegie Hall, the last stop on Rowling's brief U.S. tour, and set off thousands of emails on Potter fan websites around the world.

Some were dismayed, others indifferent, but most were supportive.

"Jo Rowling calling any Harry Potter character gay would make wonderful strides in tolerance toward homosexuality," Melissa Anelli, webmaster of the fan site the-leaky-cauldron.org told The Associated Press.

"By dubbing someone so respected, so talented and so kind, as someone who just happens to be also homosexual, she's reinforcing the idea that a person's gayness is not something of which they should be ashamed.''

"(But) a gay character in the most popular series in the world is a big step for Jo Rowling and for gay rights," added Potter fan Patrick Ross, of Rutherford, N.J.

Source: The Toronto Star

What are your views about J.K.Rowling's disclosure of Dumbledore being gay ?

[Severus]

Oh shut up dumbledore !!!

[Chocolate]

umm..I don't get it.I read this article shedin..nd I'm still confused.. ...I mean..what does she wanna prove by this..?or toh series e shesh kore dilo..why ddn she talk more abt his relationship in her books all along..hotath shock deyar ki reason..?or ei same jinish or shobshomoy continue kora uchit chilo...to give everyone a idea..that way..she cud have been more influential..she can't announce tht he's gay out of nowhere..dunno..I'm still not clear abt this....

[shmegel]

hahahahahahahahahaha. it was obvious in the last book tho!!!

[Severus]

why else would he write grindlewald a letter while he was in the bathroom ???

[shmegel]

^^ hahaha, yeh and tell him that if he hadnt come home he couldnt have met him...

[Force_Recon]

I think her point was that being homosexual doesn't mean you are abnormal or like others.
I re-read the book and found her to be quite correct surprisingly.still I have problems with homosexuality though.

[angelmorn]

See - Gay people are more intelligent than you think they are hehe

[Severus]

why idea why voldemort was single ?

[Force_Recon]

his true love was power and he had it.though I read in someplace Bellatrix was in love with him....