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Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay
NewsWeek ^ | Oct 16, 2007 | By Tara Weingarten

Posted on 10/19/2007 6:34:32 PM PDT by hercuroc

J.K. Rowling, author of the world-wide best-selling Harry Potter series, met some of her American fans tonight and provided some surprising revelations about the fictional characters who a generation of children have come to regard as close friends.

In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience errupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort's predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonshed fans, Rowling added. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy."

In answer to the question "Did Hagrid marry?" Rowling replied that sadly, no. The half-giant had a flirtation with a giantess but she found him "a tad unsophisticated" and the relationship never went forward. In response to the audience's groans of dismay, Rowling said, jokingly, "O.K., I'll write another book." And when the audience continued to express disapproval added, "at least I didn't kill him."

Other minor characters, according to Rowling, came to happier ends. Neville Longbottom, Harry's meek and hapless classmate, married Hannah Abbott, another classmate.


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KEYWORDS: albusdumbledore; breakingnews; dumbledore; gay; harrypotter; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; hpitd; jkrowling; literature
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Hee Hee

Don't know Dumbledore personally but the name is kinda gay....

1 posted on 10/19/2007 6:34:36 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: hercuroc

Not surprised. In reading the last book, it was apparent that there was something more between Dumbledore and Grindelwald than just wanting to conquer the world and put muggles in their places. The description of Grindelwald made him just a little too pretty.


2 posted on 10/19/2007 6:38:15 PM PDT by Publius (A = A)
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3 posted on 10/19/2007 6:41:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Publius
Bunch of Shiite in my lowly opinion.

Perverts worm their way into all things good.

4 posted on 10/19/2007 6:41:08 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: hercuroc

well that kills the series.

no poftas for kiddies.


5 posted on 10/19/2007 6:41:12 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: hercuroc

This means Ian McKellen will get to play him in the last movie, right?


6 posted on 10/19/2007 6:42:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: EveningStar; nutmeg
You see Nutmeg, I told you that the Harry Potter was a Friend of Dorothy!

Don't get me started on Frodo Baggins...

7 posted on 10/19/2007 6:43:09 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: hercuroc

I don’t know....sounds like that bizarre Brit sense of humor strikes again.....


8 posted on 10/19/2007 6:44:19 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Publius

Magic wand - disappears in his hand.


9 posted on 10/19/2007 6:44:26 PM PDT by Perdogg (Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me - Go tarheels!)
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To: hercuroc
I choose to ignore that.

Well, at least he isn't teaching the children any more.
But this sheds a whole new light on the relationship between him and Harry.
And on Harry proclaiming that he was Dumbledore's man through and through.

10 posted on 10/19/2007 6:44:33 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith ("I am the master.")
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To: Clemenza

Yes, MANY questions about the all-male goings on in Middle Earth.


11 posted on 10/19/2007 6:45:28 PM PDT by Nick5
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To: Publius

I’d truly hoped I had read too much into those descriptions. Now I feel used. So much for the forum I used to help with. I fought long and hard to keep today’s society from poking the gay agenda into it. Now there is no grounds to deny it. I’ll just move along to something else then.


12 posted on 10/19/2007 6:46:11 PM PDT by Ingtar (The LDS problem that Romney is facing is not his religion, but his Lacking Decisive Stands.)
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To: Perdogg

Interesting that they would refer to the wand in question as the Deathstick.


13 posted on 10/19/2007 6:46:26 PM PDT by Publius (A = A)
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To: Tanniker Smith

didn’t read any of the books but that sounds kinda creepy...


14 posted on 10/19/2007 6:46:32 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: hercuroc

Mrs. Rowling - does Dumbledore really really like little Harry?


15 posted on 10/19/2007 6:46:38 PM PDT by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: Clemenza

Frodo and Sam had a thing going, no doubt about it.


16 posted on 10/19/2007 6:47:35 PM PDT by Publius (A = A)
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To: longtermmemmory

Evangelicals don’t read “Harry Potter” anyway. I have never really understood the popularity. In July when the last Potter book came out, I was in the Airport in the Business Class Lounge talking to woman who had just bought the new one, and she was so giddy about it.

To me, it seems like she ripped off a lot of stuff from Star Wars.


17 posted on 10/19/2007 6:48:37 PM PDT by Perdogg (Join the NCAA basketball thread - Freemail me - Go tarheels!)
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To: hercuroc

So is Tinkie Winkie.....


18 posted on 10/19/2007 6:48:42 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
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To: Enterprise

there is just SO much wrong with that.

even the easy jokes just are too icky.


19 posted on 10/19/2007 6:49:48 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Doctor Raoul

is Dumbledore purple also!


20 posted on 10/19/2007 6:50:10 PM PDT by hercuroc
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