Did they make dumbledore gay

Harry Potter series author J. Rowling announced yesterday that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School, is gay. Why did her characterization of her intentions leave me not just skeptical, but outright irritated? By evening, clarity emerged, and with it this essay.

Even the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and cinematic, but none so much as in the world of fantasy. But that turned out to be quite the undersell. Instead the series, which will ultimately include five movies, covers the prelude to the infamous historical showdown between Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore, a battle referenced more than a few times in the Potter novels.

Here I gathered a few quotes that are clues to the reader that Dumbledore was homosexual and was infatuated with Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, that show that it was, indeed, canon. Please feel free to add more :. The boys took to each other at once. Bathilda shows me a letter, kept by her, that Albus Dumbledore sent Gellert Grindelwald in the dead of night.

In , "Harry Potter" author J. Rowling made a remark that would echo in the franchise's fandom for years to come. Speaking at Carnegie Hall that year, she said that she had "always thought of Dumbledore as gay" — and that the relationship between him and his teenage friend Gellert Grindelwald had been romantic. Since then, Dumbledore's sexuality has only explicitly existed outside of any of the franchise's main properties, and Rowling's words had never been confirmed on screen.