Dumbledore is gay!
- Author: Jamie
- Filed under: books
Oct 22,2007
Yes. Your eyes are not mistaken. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore has been outed by none other than Jo herself at a reading at Carnegie Hall. Rowling revealed that she always thought of Dumbledore as gay.
The question was: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?
JKR: My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that 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. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair… [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!” [laughter] “If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!”
The comments are already reeling about this new tidbit of info. If people are going to starting hating on this fact now, when they loved Dumbledore all this time, well that’s absolutely ridiculous. He is a great character with a lot of depth and secrets, and this was just one of the many. I can’t believe people are getting so worked up about it. I personally love it. I always thought Dumbledore was quite fabulous!
Other highlights from the Q&A: Neville finding love, Molly vs Bellatrix and so much more. You can read all about it at The Leaky Cauldron.
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5 Responses for "Dumbledore is gay!"
I think this is a great bit of information. Personally, I don’t see why people are so upset about it either because I think it says something positive about gay people. Dumbledore was the smartest, most respectable character in the whole series. Fans were devastated when he died, and so was I actually. It shines a positive light on the gay community. Homosexuals are just as smart, considerate, and respectable as anyone else.
I love that you wrote a post about this!! As a die-hard fan, I have to admit, that I worship Rowling in an almost unhealthy way. I have to say though, I wasn’t really a fan of her announcement. Not that I care that Dumbledore is gay (I ditto the above comment in how it shines a great light on the gay community), I just don’t know how I feel about Rowling continuing to discuss characters and giving out information that wasn’t in the book. I mean, of course, I like her discussing characters, but I don’t like getting new information about them. It feels almost like, cheating. We all followed the books, we all fell in love with the characters. I would just hate to read in 15 years Rowling is coming out with new stuff like ‘I never said this before but Harry was left-handed’, or something. I don’t really know how to explain it (obviously from this comment). Le sigh. Maybe I will try again later.
That makes total sense, Brandy. I think that since Deathly Hallows is so recent and that it was a legitimate question from a curious fan at a reading, that it is alright. It’s not like she just came out of nowhere and was like, ‘oh hey everyone, Dumbledore was gay this whole time!’. But I do see how it can be thought of as like cheating, tying up all lose ends complete with a little bow. It doesn’t leave much for people to come up with their own conclusions about characters. If that makes sense.
If one day she does start spewing random facts out of the blue, no book tours or questions asked, then I think I would be pretty annoyed. Right now, I don’t mind so much, but we’ll see how long that lasts!
Meh. I still love Dumbledore. Don’t see why that comment had to be mentioned at all, why not just leave it up for speculation?
I think it is cool. I always think of that world existing in her head anyway, so I don’t mind her giving out more information.
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