Dumbledore Comes Out of the Closet

[TheButlerDiditt]

It was so exciting to be there in person and hear the crowd's reaction. I only heard positive!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787

J.K. Rowling, author of the world-wide best-selling Harry Potter series, met some of her American fans Friday night and provided some surprising revelations about the fictional characters who a generation of children have come to regard as close friends.

In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience errupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort's predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonshed fans, Rowling added. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy."

 

[rosiep]

I love it!!! DD said she always knew...but she's a wise guy!

 

[Spaceship Earthfan]

I thought this story was a joke when I read it on Yahoo this morning, I had to read it over a couple times, lol. I always pictured Dumbledore as being sorta ambiguous, but never really thought about it. Now I've gotta go back and re-read the last book again . Good for JK Rowling!!

 

[ConcKahuna]

It does explain why he seemed to give up so much for Grindlewald (spelled wrong I'm sure). I always thought it was very un-Dumbledoreish to ignore his family like that.

 

[minicoopercraig]

I bet it wasn't only their wands they were waving around. I need to stop, I'm getting eviler and eviler (Is that even a word?!) LOL.

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

musta been a BROOM closet...(groan)

 

[ConcKahuna]

musta been a BROOM closet...(groan)

And here I thought it was just the phoenix who was a flamer!

 

[jharrowell]

Do you think Universal is going to build the "Dumbledore Singles Bar" down in Hogsmead?

 

[ConcKahuna]

Do you think Universal is going to build the "Dumbledore Singles Bar" down in Hogsmead?

Oh, I thought that was The Groove...

 

[R.S.Winters]

omg that is soooo funny!
yay for Dumby! lol

 

[rosiep]

musta been a BROOM closet...(groan)

And here I thought it was just the phoenix who was a flamer!

Stop, stop...you guys are killin' me!!!

 

[seraph]

The fanfictions just write themselves.

 

[minicoopercraig]

That's the sad part. We know they do. LOL.