I heard Dumbledore is gay?

Question

I just found this out. Can someone please explain the ENTIRE thing to me? like when she said it, and in the books what proof symbolizes he is gay. Details please.

Like in the books do thet straight out say he is gay, or are there things that lead to it? I am only on the 4th book so idk.

the Carnegie hall in pittsburgh???

nevermind in new york.

Answer 1

She announced recently that the character Dumbledore is gay. Nowhere in the book does it show any proof Dumbledore is gay. It's so random how she all of a sudden brings it up. She's had seven books and 10 years to mention that our favorite wizard was gay, besides the fact that he never had a relationship with a woman.
The whole incident is random and stupid. Announcing that Ron is allergic to tomato soup would probably have been more relevant.
It's not impossible to beliebe that she announced it just to keep the attention of her final book, afraid the hype of it might die down.
In quote she said, "If I had known that this would thrill you so much, I would've announced this ages ago!"

I highly doubt that I bet she just made it up.
She said his gay relationship was with Grindelwald, because she supposedly 'made a big deal of Dumbledore's friendship with Grindelwald' so it should've been obvious.

I was a big fan of Harry Potter, but I'm starting to liek the author less and less.

Answer 2

During a press conference in New York, the Rowling announced that Dumbledore was gay. There isn't a lot of evidence, or really any throughout the entire story to support her statement, but she's the author, so she decides how her character goes.
The reason Dumbledore's sexuality even came up was due to the question, "Does Dumbledore ever find true love?" came up.
Either way, it doesn't matter since he dies.

If you'd like to read up on some articles, here's one:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1674069,00.html?imw=Y

It is currently speculated/assumed that Rowling simply did this to be provokative and create a new spell of drama for the world. As you know, Harry Potter was already taboo for many, introducing homosexuality to it creates more trouble.

However, Rowling did say the books were supposed to be about understanding and supporting.

Answer 3

I haven't read all the books but I've been told by someone who has that there's no real indication in any of them that he's gay, it's obviously just something J K Rowling has remembered now that she's finished writing the series.

It's pretty obvious to me that Rowling never thought of him as being gay when writing the books. If she had have done so it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect her to mention this at some point over the course of 7 books. Instead I think she just decided to announce he was gay to wind up all those Christian fundamentalists in America who denounce Harry Potter as dangerous Occult propoganda. I know from previous interviews her very low opinion of such folks and I don't think it's without significance that she was in New York when this little revelation slipped out.

If she was really interested in advancing Gay rights, tolerance etc why not have made Harry gay ?

Answer 4

wow you people need to watch the news more often. the actor is not gay, the character is. just a fact. for me personally it doesn't change anything. as for what i understand, it looks like she just up and decided to make him gay when someone asked her why Dumbledore never had a lover or a wife or anything in the books. JKR told this person that it was because he was gay and that his big tragedy was that Grindlewald didnt love him or something. i dont know but it sounds like all publicity stunt. sorry but thats what i think it is. there was absolutely no indication of it in any of the books. i think he didn't have a lover because he was so tramatized with what happened in his own family. besides he was to busy trying to do away with Volde that he didn't have time :P she/he would have just been cannon fodder anyways.

Answer 5

Look up the Carnegie Hall interview and read it for your self. I suggest the Leaky Cauldron.

And what difference does his sexuality make in the text anyway?

Edit: I just read your update that you are only on Goblet of Fire, so you would be better off waiting untill you finish the series before seeking the information, as any answer would contain a spoiler for the story.

Answer 6

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 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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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10...

Answer 7

It’s a fictional character from a favored fable sequence. human beings shouldn't take it to be something better than that. however Dumbledore does together with his time isn’t considerable in the slightest. in case you like the Harry Potter sequence that’s all that concerns.

Answer 8

Yes, the character Dumbledore is gay. Here's a link to the story on Yahoo! News where she said it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_en_ot/books_harry_potter

Answer 9

Life of us

Answer 10

Last Friday at Carnegie Hall during a talk author J.K Rowling announced to the audience that "Dumbledore is gay". She further stated that Dumgledore was in love with the wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Is that disgusting or what?

So now there is a homosexual wizard lurking at Hogwarts?

This means that there was a hidden homosexual agenda running all through the Harry Potter books. Not good!