Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character within the Harry Potter. I couldn’t believe it. He’s gay? For me Severus Snape looks gay more than Dumbledore.

It’s good attempting to show ‘coming out’ in a positive light but it’s kinda shocking. I am Harry Potter’s fan. I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when I was a cabin attendant. I remember I read it when I was in Narita all night.

Washington Post, Reuters
Saturday, October 20, 2007; 2:08 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) – J.K. Rowling has outed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, telling fans in New York that the wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay.

Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected — that she “always thought Dumbledore was gay,” reported entertainment Web site E! Online.

Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard Gellert Grindelwald but when Grindelwald turned out to be more interested in the dark arts than good, Dumbledore was “terribly let down” and went on to destroy his rival.

That love, she said, was Dumbledore’s “great tragedy.”

“Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” she said.

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Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell welcomed the news about Dumbledore and said :

“It’s good that children’s literature includes the reality of gay people, since we exist in every society.

“But I am disappointed that she did not make Dumbledore’s sexuality explicit in the Harry Potter book. Making it obvious would have sent a much more powerful message of understanding and acceptance.”

And a spokesman for gay rights group Stonewall added :

“It’s great that JK has said this. It shows that there’s no limit to what gay and lesbian people can do, even being a wizard headmaster.”

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