Jk rowling dumbledore gay
The third 'Fantastic Beasts' movie finally addresses Dumbledore's sexuality front and center — nearly 15 years after J.K. Rowling first revealed he's gay
In 2007, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling made a remark that would echo in the franchise's fandom for years to arrive. Speaking at Carnegie Hall that year, she said that she had "always thought of Dumbledore as gay" — and that the relationship between him and his teenage friend Gellert Grindelwald had been romantic.
Since then, Dumbledore's sexuality has only explicitly existed outside of any of the franchise's main properties, and Rowling's words had never been confirmed on screen. She hinted in 2016 that the character's queerness would play a role in the "Fantastic Beasts" films, telling reporters to "watch this space," Second Magazine reported at the time.
Almost fifteen years after Rowling first confirmed Dumbledore's sexuality, it's finally made it to the big screen.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore."
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Rowling Lets Dumbledore Out of the Closet
Oct. 20, 2007 — -- Well, it's official. Albus Dumbledore, a hero of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter series and headmaster of the wizarding academy Hogwarts, is gay.
That's right, Harry's mentor and father-figure would favor a nice wizard to a hot witch any day.
In a surprising new Potter twist, author J.K. Rowling outed Dumbledore at New York's Carnegie Hall in front of 2,000 Potter fans during a question and answer session Friday night.
After reading an excerpt from the seventh installment of her series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," one young fan asked if Dumbledore had ever loved anyone.
"Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling.
She was initially met with a surprised silence but ultimately the audience erupted in cheers for several minutes prompting Rowling to add, "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy."
Rowling went on to explain that Dumbledore fell for Gellert Grindelwald, his childhood companion with similarly brilliant wizarding skills, who eventually went over to the dark side and became the predecessor to the i
Timeline of JK Rowling’s Interviews about Dumbledore/Grindelwald
Reveal happened October 2007 during Deathly Hallows Book tour which was released on July, 2007. So she didn’t reveal “YEARS LATER” to leap on some queer moment. Just comprehend your facts before you criticize first.
This is all I could find. If there is more interviews she did about this topic, permit me know.
October, 2007
Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of adore, ever fall in love himself?
My honest answer to you… I always mind 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 brief 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 permit down by him. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In truth, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth motion picture, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a teen once, whose hair… [laughter]. I
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She made her revelation to a packed house in Fresh York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US book tour.
She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found "true love".
"Dumbledore is gay," she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.
The audience gasped, then applauded. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy," she said.
"Falling in love can blind us to an extent," she added, saying Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down" and his love for Grindelwald was his "great tragedy".
"Oh, my god," Rowling, 42, concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction".
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Fan sites have long speculated on Dumbledore's sexuality as he was known for having a mysterious, troubled past.
Rowling told the audience that while functional on the planned sixth Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Bloo