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So according to JK Rowling, Dumbledore was gay. And in love with Grindelwald.
Answering a question posed to her at tonight's book reading at Carnegie Hall in New York, Harry Potter author JK Rowling said she "always thought Dumbledore was gay" and that he originally fell in love with the wizard Grindelwald.
Rowling also said she had read through Steve Kloves' script for the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" over it.
All shippy squeeing aside (though it's always nice to know that the subtext I saw was actually, y'know, text), I'm happy to see that she actually came out (hur, hur) and said it - there would, I'd imagine, be a significant amount of pressure to keep it under wraps because "It's a CHILDREN'S BOOK!!!" As it is, I'm wondering what kind of backlash there's going to be; my hope would be none, but you just know that some outraged parent is frothing at the mouth as we speak.
Answering a question posed to her at tonight's book reading at Carnegie Hall in New York, Harry Potter author JK Rowling said she "always thought Dumbledore was gay" and that he originally fell in love with the wizard Grindelwald.
Rowling also said she had read through Steve Kloves' script for the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" over it.
All shippy squeeing aside (though it's always nice to know that the subtext I saw was actually, y'know, text), I'm happy to see that she actually came out (hur, hur) and said it - there would, I'd imagine, be a significant amount of pressure to keep it under wraps because "It's a CHILDREN'S BOOK!!!" As it is, I'm wondering what kind of backlash there's going to be; my hope would be none, but you just know that some outraged parent is frothing at the mouth as we speak.