Dumbledore gay???

Question

I need help, HP fans! I have heard about Dumbledore being "gay" but is it Dumbledore [the character] or the actor? I am so confused! I dont realy care if he is or not, but I still would like to know....
Thankies! :]

Answer 1

The fictional character. And yes, JK Rowling herself confirmed it in a press interview.

Answer 2

Dumbledore as a character is gay. JK Rowling stated that he was gay in response to a screenwriters desire to make a reference to a past romance that Dumbledore had. The actor is married, (imdb) but he could be in the closet still, you never know :)

Answer 3

It's the character Rowling was talking about sweetie. I can't imagine Rowling claiming that either the late Richard Harris or Sir Michael Gambol (who portrayed Dumbledore in the movie adaptations) are gay.

Doesn't matter to me either way. He's a fictional character and he was still great in life so his sexual inclinations don't matter to me in the least.

Answer 4

No, it's the character. It is not explicitly stated in the books, but Ms. Rowling recently stated in an interview that the character was gay. Some scriptwriter had a line for Dumbledore about a girl he once knew, and she quashed it.

Answer 5

Dumbledore the character is gay not the actor.
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbledore

Read the Pharagraph "Dumbledore and Grindelwald"

Answer 6

It's Dumbledore the character in the books. JK Rowling announced it. You can probably find some videos of her saying it on www.youtube.com

Answer 7

JK Rowling answered a question in an interview several weeks ago saying that she "always envisioned Dumbledore as gay."

Answer 8

It is Dumbledore the character, why would she say "Dumbledore is gay" If it was the actor that was gay?

Answer 9

The character of Dumbledore is apparently gay.... according to the author, anyway.

Answer 10

JKR is talking about the character. See the link below. I am a bit bemused at some of the things that others have said about it, and JKR's alleged motivations.

I don't think that JKR has an agenda, or is seeking more publicity. I think it speaks to the popularity of the series and the amount of emotional energy that fans have put into the books, that it became a big story.

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.

wl

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