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Albus Dumbledore took quite a few secrets with him to the grave. And
it's possible that even he didn't know about this one.
After helping Dumbledore's favorite pupil uncover a treasure trove of
information about the Hogwarts headmaster in Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, the final installment of her billion-dollar fantasy
series, J.K. Rowling has pulled something new out of the pensieve:
Dumbledore was gay.
(What you just heard was the sound of conservative religious groups
scribbling down one more reason to loathe the Harry Potter franchise.)
Falling in love can blind us to an extent, Rowling explained Friday
in front of a packed house at New York's Carnegie Hall, where she
capped off her first U.S. book tour since 2000.
Which explains why the brilliant wizard was briefly blinded as a young
man by the charm and skill of Gellert Grindelwald, his companion
turned arch-nemesis who turned out to be more interested in the Dark
Arts than a three-bedroom craftsman in Hogsmeade.
After Dumbledore was horribly, terribly let down, Rowling explained,
he went on to destroy Grindelwald in what is considered in the
wizarding world to have been the ultimate wand-toting battle between
good and evil.
That love, she said to raucous applause, was Dumbledore's great
tragedy.
If I had know this would have made you so happy, I would have told
you years ago, Rowling said.
If this revelation seems almost too whimsical, consider this: Rowling,
who penned much of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in a café
while living out of her car, can certainly be a bit cheeky, but it
seems highly unlikely that she would try to put one over on a
Manhattan landmark full of kids and other readers who have made her
one of the richest people in England.
While working on the sixth Potter film, Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, which focuses largely on Dumbledore and Harry's
relationship, as well as the elder wizard's interaction with a young
Voldemort, Rowling said that she slipped director David Yates an
eye-opening note after noticing that there was a reference in the
script to a girl in Dumbledore's past.
There's no word yet on if this will affect Michael Gambon's character
in the final two Potter movies, which are slated for release in 2008
and 2010, respectively.
Dumbledore's sexuality has apparently been of great interest to
bloggers and chat room denizens for years, with his history-and
intimate affinities-becoming the subject of much debate and, ahem,
original short stories.
Just imagine the fan fiction now, Rowling joked.
Of course, one could always have shrugged off the lack of romance in
his life, what with his hectic work schedule and his penchant for
secrecy.
And, as the scarred one learned in Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix, Dumbledore could be quite temperamental, especially when
protecting those he loved.
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