So over the weekend, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling revealed an interesting bit of information about Hogwarts' headmaster:
"At a Friday night appearance at Carnegie Hall, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling confirmed that which many fans had suspected: Albus' wand leans the other way. According to the AP, during a question-and-answer following a brief Deathly Hallows reading, Rowling responded to a query about Hogwarts' headmaster finding true love by saying, "Dumbledore is gay." The writer proceeded to elaborate that Dumbledore was smitten with Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle. Upon seeing his good friend go bad, she says, Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."
OK, what?!? I mean, what purpose does this serve? First of all, who are these moron fans that are asking about Dumbledore's love life? You have one opportunity to ask this woman anything about the rich world she's created and that's what you want to know? Second, what good does it do to reveal this now after the fact? All it does is rile up the homophobes who don't want to hear that and it certainly doesn't appease those in favor of it because she was too gutless to add that aspect into the actual books. This was definiely something that deserved to be left to readers' imagination rather than revealed in such an frivolous manner.
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The cynical side of me says that she isn't rich enough and wants more publicity. If everyone's talking about Harry again, then someone who hasn't bought the books yet just might go out and drop the money. Otherwise, it's definitely a WTF exclamation.
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