For soothe, geeks! Your iconic wizard leader is a homo!
Author J.K. Rowling outed top wizard Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter fans after a reading from the series’ final book at Carnegie Hall. The packed house responded with gasps and applause upon the coming out of the Hogwarts school headmaster, which now has a whole new disturbing meaning.
Fielding questions from audience members, Rowling was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love”, to which she replied "Dumbledore is gay”.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down." Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."
No, the real tragedy is having to look at such a nonsensical sentence like “Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore is in love with Gellert Grindelwald” and not treat it like a joke. It’s hard enough for gay men to be taken seriously when they call themselves silly names, but with the childishly made up characters from the book, I don’t think their cause is being helped. I guess Lord Buttercup and Squishy Pinkbottom would have been too obvious. The whole thing sounds like an Eddie Izzard bit.
Author J.K. Rowling outed top wizard Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter fans after a reading from the series’ final book at Carnegie Hall. The packed house responded with gasps and applause upon the coming out of the Hogwarts school headmaster, which now has a whole new disturbing meaning.
Fielding questions from audience members, Rowling was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love”, to which she replied "Dumbledore is gay”.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down." Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."
No, the real tragedy is having to look at such a nonsensical sentence like “Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore is in love with Gellert Grindelwald” and not treat it like a joke. It’s hard enough for gay men to be taken seriously when they call themselves silly names, but with the childishly made up characters from the book, I don’t think their cause is being helped. I guess Lord Buttercup and Squishy Pinkbottom would have been too obvious. The whole thing sounds like an Eddie Izzard bit.
Englebert Humperdinck, etc at 4:10
Saddest of all is the fan speculation and energy put into the whole affair. Readers have speculated on the sexuality of Dumbledore, noting that he has no close relationship with women and a mysterious, troubled past. I knew the priesthood was a haven for homosexuals, but the schools of wizardry? Thankfully there is already fan fiction from deviants expressing the explicit lovin’ Dumbledore has when his wand is full of magic, so that canon can be hinted at assuming Rowling won’t touch the subject further. By the way, if you’re such a dork that you write your own stories about Harry Potter characters, please sterilize yourself. And if your stories about said fictional characters is erotic in nature, suck on the business end of a tailpipe. You’d be doing everybody a favor.
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