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Dumbledore, we hardly knew ye

Posted on October 21st, 2007 | by Billifer | Dumbledore, gay, Harry Potter

This just in. Beloved Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, departed since the close of Year 6, was publicly outed by J.K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall on Friday, 19 October. Yes, friends, Dumbledore was gay.

bq. [Rowling] then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” Rowling said of Dumbledore’s feelings, adding that Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down.” Dumbledore’s love, she observed, was his “great tragedy.” “Oh, my god,” Rowling concluded with a laugh, “the fan fiction.”

(Thanks, “TheBetwixt”:http://www.thebetwixt.com!)