Dumbledore is gay

**mh bich who els** · **Dumbledore is gay -** 23-10-2007, 04:47 AM

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NEW YORK - 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.
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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 e-mails on Potter fan Web sites 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: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book 7), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (movie 5) news, images, videos, podcast and more, 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."

"'DUMBLEDORE IS GAY' is quite a headline to stumble upon on a Friday evening, and it's certainly not what I expected," added Potter fan Patrick Ross, of Rutherford, N.J. "(But) a gay character in the most popular series in the world is a big step for Jo Rowling and for gay rights."

Gellert Grindelwald was a dark wizard of great power, who terrorized people much in the same way Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, was to do a generation later. Readers hear of him in the first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," in a reference to how Dumbledore defeated him. In "Deathly Hallows," readers learn they once had been best friends.

"Neither Dumbledore nor Grindelwald ever seems to have referred to this brief boyhood friendship in later life,'" Rowling writes. "However, there can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald. Was it lingering affection for the man or fear of exposure as his once best friend that caused Dumbledore to hesitate?"

As a young man, Dumbledore, brilliant and powerful, had been forced to return home to look after his mentally ill younger sister and younger brother. It was a task he admits to Harry that he resented, because it derailed the bright future he had been looking forward to.

Then Grindelwald, described by Rowling as "golden-haired, merry-faced," arrived after having been expelled from his own school. Grindelwald's aunt, Bathilda Bagshot, says of their meeting: "The boys took to each other at once." In a letter to Grindelwald, Dumbledore discusses their plans for gaining wizard dominance: "'(I)f you had not been expelled we would never have met.'"

Potter readers had speculated about Dumbledore, noting that he has no close relationship with women and a mysterious, troubled past.

"Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said Friday of Dumbledore's feelings about Grindelwald, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."

Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."
SOURCE:Outing gives Potter passages new meaning - Yahoo! News

Its pretty stunning cuz i wulde have never known but at tha same time its gude that jk rowling did this so that people wulde be more ok with gays/lesbians with all the hate going on.

**Agent Orange** · **Re: Dumbledore is gay -** 23-10-2007, 05:08 AM

No offense to your post or anything...

But in the general topic of the title....who the fuck cares?? It's a character in some lame fantasy book. They can honestly be whatever the fuck you want them to be! Rowling could have been like "All the characters in the book are blue!". It's her book.

I just don't get it. Everyone is like "This is a big step forward for homosexuals!". How the fuck is a gay made-up character in a book any type of step forward? It's all fake!

**mh bich who els** · **Re: Dumbledore is gay -** 23-10-2007, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Agent Orange

No offense to your post or anything...

But in the general topic of the title....who the fuck cares?? It's a character in some lame fantasy book. They can honestly be whatever the fuck you want them to be! Rowling could have been like "All the characters in the book are blue!". It's her book.

I just don't get it. Everyone is like "This is a big step forward for homosexuals!". How the fuck is a gay made-up character in a book any type of step forward? It's all fake!

haha it takes a lot to offend me so yea no offense taken.

its a big step forward cuz the harry potter series has such a big audience. i mean its global. the harry potter franchise made soo much money from tha movies and books and stuff. and for tha author to come out and say that one of tha most loved characters of tha series is homosexual shocked almost evryone and since they didnt even kno it makes them more tolerant.

and yea it is fake but theres some hardcore harry potter fans out there that act like there living in that world and dressin up and shit. theres lots of ppl like that so it affected there views alot.
so yea.

**Agent Orange** · **Re: Dumbledore is gay -** 23-10-2007, 11:33 PM

^
Wtf was that for?

But yeah mh, I guess to those hardcore fans it will matter. Cause if you're one of those nerds who does all that dress up shit, then you've been a homo the whole time.

**youngkidd** · **Re: Dumbledore is gay -** 24-10-2007, 12:45 AM

did i show u this in the shoutbox? or u werent there? either way i dont care...

**jefpeace** · **Re: Dumbledore is gay -** 24-10-2007, 03:48 AM

What bothers me about this whole thing is that the sexual preference of a character, or even a real person ... a friggin' king or president even ... could ever be considered newsworthy.

I could not care less what anyone besides myself and my wife does in their private lives.

But then, I'm civilized, intelligent and mature.