Is dumbledore really gay or is it all made up???

Question

i am a HUGE! harry potter fan but i dont ever remember reading that dumbledore was gay... so is it true???

Answer 1

I don't think that JKR has an agenda, or is seeking more publicity. 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. and in any case, this story came out because she was directly asked if Dumbledore loved anyone.

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 remember 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 Grindelwald seduced Dumbledore on a number of levels; intellectually, ideologically, 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 scholars 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 2

Yes, Dumbledore is gay and it was made up by J. K. Rowling herself.

Snape is also gay and that's why Dumbledore trusted him so. They were lovers.

Both Snape and Dumbledore turned their pedophile eyes on all the male students at Hogwarts too. Poor Harry. Poor Ron. And all of the rest of the male Hogwartarians.

Thanks so much J. K. Rowling for making those points clearer now.

Answer 3

i think of that's rubbish. i don't remember him being gay interior the final e book. i don't remember examining something in any of the books that would desire to have made me think of he become gay. She shows this after the sequence is over - cheesy. i don't have something against gay human beings. to each his very own. This become a large sequence. individually, i think of she merely suggested it to the two close the questioner up and did not comprehend all of the hoopla it might produce or she necessary greater interest for some reason.

Answer 4

dumbledore is really gay it was reviled while jk rowling was in new york on a book tour she was asked by a kid if dumbledore had ever fallen in love. jk rowling had said yes that dumbledore was blinded by what he had felt for a wizard that in later life he had ended up beating though.

Answer 5

Jk is a liar. But I bet she is getting just the reaction she was looking for. I think if he was truly a known HomoSexual there would have been some reference to it in the final book. I say that bc a good portion of the final book is dedicated to revaling Dumbeldores past and he even has a book written about him by RitaSkeeter which mkes no mention of this shocking fact. The book was meant to tarnish his reputation in death and if he was gay she would have uncovered it while interviewing Batilda Bagshot under te influence of Verataserum. Either it is a big publicity stunt or she left a gapping hole in the book. I think it was a stunt to get the readers to pour through all the books searching for answers.

Answer 6

The author says she "thinks of him as gay". It's her explanation for some things that didn't happen in the stories. But there's nothing in the stories themselves to say that he is or isn't.

Whether you want to read those stories with that view in mind or not is entirely up to you. If it mattered to the characters or plot, the author would have written about it in the stories.

I think that it's not terribly smart of the author to reveal contentious information outside the story, because it raises lots of other questions. It can also make it hard for parents and teachers to explain to young children what people are talking about. Better if you put contentious information *in* the story and write about it there, or just don't mention it.

Answer 7

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more

Please read something for yourself. J.K. created this entire world so many of us know and love, so, yes it is true if she says it is. His sexuality is never mentioned, as it is not critical to the plot. His intense friendship with Gellert Grindelwald and the tumultuous events that followed are talked about in Deathly Hallows.

Answer 8

Dumbledore is made up, so it doesn't matter what a fictional character does with its sexuality, sheesh, everyone needs to mellow out about this!!!!

Answer 9

It wasn't mentioned in the book. JK Rowling said it to the press. Since she's the creator I'd say it's true.

Answer 10

It is a fiction book so really you can picture what you want the character to be. Everyone has their own idea of pictureing people. If you wnat him to be gay then let him be gay. Or you can have hiim not gay. That is what I like about fiction you can just make up things not listed or written.