Dumbledore Isn’t Canadian
Dumbledore is gay.
Author J.K. Rowling shocked 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 the Harry Potter Series.
“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.”
This seems to me to be a little convenient. In today’s air of acceptance, is this just another marketing ploy? Although, I must admit, it allows me to make a lot more jokes about his wizard’s staff and any spell containing flames.