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To: dragonblustar; Corin Stormhands
Her words, not mine.

I never said they were YOUR words. What I DID say was that she never wrote that as part of her story, so I choose to look at it as a strong friendship between Dumbledore and Grindenwald, as I understood it when I read the book the first time. I never attributed their relationship to anything but a desire together to change the world for the good. Socialist, maybe, but not homosexual. Dumbledore also states in the story that he was wrong to think that way, so at least we knew he became a little more wise as he aged.

78 posted on 10/26/2007 2:14:58 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
"It's very clear" in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows how intense Dumbledore's feelings for the dark wizard are, she said, feelings that astute adult readers will recognize while children will simply construe as manifestations of friendship.

The power of love is one of the major themes in the Potter oeuvre, she noted, and "certainly it's never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man [like Dumbledore] would never love other men.

"He's my character," she asserted. "I have the right to know what I know about him and say what I say about him."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071024.ROWLING24/TPStory/Entertainment

Rowling refered to Dumbledore as gay, not once gay but as being gay his whole life. Rowling implies that Dumbledore's relationship with Grindenwald was wrong because it made him blind, not because it was a homosexual encounter.

80 posted on 10/26/2007 2:26:40 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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