
Seriously... JKR revealed it last night. Gay and inlove with Gelert Grindelwald... That is so so so cool!
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However, I suspect that it's not so much that Dumbledore is "gay" in the sense that post-Grindelwald he went around thinking "oooh that guy over there is so hot" but rather, he was attracted to intelligence and the only person that was ever on-par with him was Grindelwald. Therefore Dumbledore fell in love with him. I don't think that we're supposed to think of him as a very sexual person, because I don't really think he was. Gelert was probably the only person he was ever in love with, Snape/Lily style.
Maybe part of the reason he was sympathetic to Snape is he'd had a similar heartbreak he'd never gotten over.
At any rate, it adds a whole new dimension to Dumbledore's character, and I'm glad JK told us.
thanks for sharing your thoughts, very interesting!
I think it was the perfect decision for Rowling to leave the whole issue out of the books though, because it shows that somebody can be gay without a huge amount of debate and fuss. It doesn't have to be a big deal. I know people will turn it into one, but at least in the world of HP it doesn't have to be.
But yes, there is a debate now for sure. Maybe Rowling herself doesn't realise how big this is. It's a huge step forward in child literature, and it was about time someone did something like this!