Dumbledore is gay — Rowling
JK Rowling has taken Albus Dumbledore — the wizard father-figure of her Harry Potter books — out of the (broom) closet, stating that she always thought of him as gay:
Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected — that she “always thought Dumbledore was gay,” reported entertainment Web site E! Online. Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard Gellert Grindelwald but when Grindelwald turned out to be more interested in the dark arts than good, Dumbledore was “terribly let down” and went on to destroy his rival.
That love, she said, was Dumbledore’s “great tragedy.”
“Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” she said.
The audience reportedly fell silent after the admission — then erupted into applause.
Rowling says so, and she’s the only one who would know for sure. The love of his life was Gellert Grindelwald.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed a big secret about Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore’s past – he was in love with another wizard. During her American book tour JK was asked if Dumbledore found true love.
“Dumbledore is gay,” she replied, before adding that he’d fallen in love with his rival Gellert Grindelwald.
But she said Dumbledore was “terribly let down” when Grindelward became more interested in the dark arts than good, and so he went on to destroy him.
“That love was Dumbledore’s great tragedy,” she said.
Fans at New York’s Carnegie Hall were initially stunned into silence by the announcement, but soon started clapping and cheering.
The news should help to clear up lots of rumours about Dumbledore’s mysterious past once and for all.
