J.K. Rowling Reveals 'Harry Potter' Character Dumbledore Is Gay.

Johnboy60 · Oct 20, 2007

NEW YORK Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall. After reading briefly from the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," she took questions from audience members.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303760,00.html

pgp_protector · Oct 20, 2007

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Lilium · Oct 20, 2007

Cool. Though I didn't know rumors were going around and never picked up that idea from the books.

BlackAndy · Oct 20, 2007

Silly. Thought he had a female interest in his younger days in the books?

BlackAndy · Oct 20, 2007

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Was Rowling being facetious, though?

Avatar · Oct 20, 2007

HOORORS!! NOOOO!!

*runs off to burn the kids' books*

LouTheWicked · Oct 20, 2007

*waits for more replies, just to see the overall outcome*

*Starlight* · Oct 20, 2007

Yay for Dumbledore! :clap:

Glaz · Oct 20, 2007

So basically, she just made him gay to stir up some controversy. Yawn.

*Starlight* · Oct 20, 2007

Controversy can be good.

alphatronics · Oct 20, 2007

Well, that explains a lot.

Yyharssargyhaell · Oct 20, 2007

These are children's books. Trust it to adults to defile them for their own purposes.

In my opinion, J.K. stopped writing the Harry Potter series after book four and started off on some... other series. Books 5 through 7 certainly do not belong with the first four, magical, works of literature.

Y.

pgp_protector · Oct 20, 2007

*Starlight* said:
Controversy can be good.

Well it may get more sales this way

notto · Oct 20, 2007

SoupySayles said:
So basically, she just made him gay to stir up some controversy. Yawn.

Kind of like Falwell.

clarksided · Oct 20, 2007

pgp_protector said:
Well it may get more sales this way

Well, normally I'd say that's true, but in the case of Harry Potter, the books sell well enough already without a gay character.

Also, this is awesome news.

SeraphymCrashing · Oct 20, 2007

notto said:
Kind of like Falwell.

Goodness, those are creepy.

Fantine · Oct 20, 2007

If Rowling envisioned the character of Dumbledore as being gay, but never wrote any scenes in which he expressed his sexual preferences or alluded to his sexual identity, I don't see how it makes any difference.

pgp_protector · Oct 20, 2007

SeraphymCrashing said:
Goodness, those are creepy.

There nothing

Avatar · Oct 20, 2007

Fantine said:
If Rowling envisioned the character of Dumbledore as being gay, but never wrote any scenes in which he expressed his sexual preferences or alluded to his sexual identity, I don't see how it makes any difference.

You're saying I didn't have to burn the books? :doh:

happydance · Oct 20, 2007

pgp_protector said:
Well it may get more sales this way

Free advertising!!!
It is a bit odd that she would wait until now to reveal that he was gay.

notto said:
Kind of like Falwell.

The Teletubbies are weird, but no where near as creepy as the baby head in the sun.

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