Dumbledore's Gay!?

Question

What do you think?

Answer 1

More caving in to the radical homosexual agenda. It's not enough that 1/2 of tv / movies seem to have some gay angle, now the indictrination has to start with childhood reading.
What a crock...

Answer 2

Yes, I read that online from CNN. According to the story I read, she had told the writer of the screenplay for HBP that Dumbledore was gay because there was mention of a female love interest in the screenplay and she had to set them right. Having done that, she might as well have made it public, since it would have eventually come out anyway--she could control when and how it was done.

Throughout the series, we know Dumbledore as a tireless and seemingly single-minded fighter against Dark Wizards (at least from Harry's perspective; we do have to rememeber that Albus is also a great teacher, an alchemist, and important theoretical Wizard--remember the tools and instruments he made himself). But how did Albus become that way?

We learn much about this in DH, with Arianna's story, Aberforth's story and the story of the friendship between Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. In reading DH, it was clear that Grndelwald seduced Dumbledore on a number of levels; intellectually, idiologically, and, by JKR's new revelation, emotionally. We don't know if that seduction was sexual as well, and I'm not sure it is important for us to know.

The revelation completes the picture for us of a man who felt betrayed, injured by one he loved, ashamed at how far he went from rational thought and behavior, how far he really was from what he thought he was.

The up shot is that we now know more completely Dumbledore's motivations for fighting Dark Wizards--his shame at his own tangential contribution to Grindelwald's career, his reluctance to fight him, and, when Voldemort rose, his determination to not to repeat his prior mistake of inaction and to fight Voldemort from the start.

So in summery, It was part of the way JKR viewed Dumbledore and understood him. I don't think it was something that would have come out voluntarily--more likely something that would have made a scholarly article 50 or 60 years from now after she was gone and literary scholar had access to her full notes (assuming she left them to be investigated).

BTW, there is some inkling of this in DH, where Rita Skeeter talks about devoting a chapter in her book about Dumbledore to the Dumbledore/Harry relationship. This is not to say that there was anything improper--but that JKR did put out a hint.

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Answer 3

It fits, but who the heck cares? Dumbledore had close friendships with both men and women. Just because he never jumped into bed with women..... And we have NO proof that he jumped into bed with men either.

I submit that Dumbledore was a chaste man who didn't have sufficient sex drive to care one way or the other. There are MANY, MANY intellectuals who actually fall into this category.

Answer 4

Is this just a way to be politically correct?
He's a fictitious figure so gay or not is only up to the author and unless the story line deals with a gay situation what difference does it make?

Answer 5

It makes no general impact on the stories told in the seven novels. As there are not going to be anymore Harry novels, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Answer 6

Yes, it's recently been announced official. JK admitted it. The news is new, but kinda 'so yesterday'. I never guesses he was gay, until I heard the news.

Answer 7

Darn it, I was really hoping he and McGonagall were having some sort of secret affair.

Answer 8

I think its great, JK Rowling has added some real life to the character.

Answer 9

I just think it's dumb because it never hinted to it in the books. Kinda pointless. Otherwise, it's no big deal.

Answer 10

That's what the author JK Rowling says. And she is the authority.