JK Rowling reveals more!!

[The Sorting Hat]

Q: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

JKR: My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] "If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!"

Jo also said after revelation: "You needed something to keep you going for the next 10 years! ...Oh, my god, the fan fiction now, eh?"

Q: Did Neville ever find love?

Of course. ... To make him extra cool he marries the woman who becomes, eventually, the new landlady at The Leaky Cauldron, which I think would make him very cool among the students, that he lives above the pub. He marries Hannah Abbott.



.. And I cannae be bothered to copy and paste more so check out:

www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/

[Jac Shaw]

Oh my gosh! Now there's a shocker! But I guess in some strange way it would make sense that Dumbledore would have been in love with Grindelwald. "Love is blindness," as Bono very aptly pointly out. Poor Dumbledore!

But Hannah and Neville? I don't know ... but it sounds really cute when you think about it. Hanna Longbottom? hmm, not bad ;D

[Prof Octavious Everritt]

Meh... She possibly only said he was gay so late to keep the American sales up. The American Christian Society would have tried harder than ever to repel the book from America.

[Alexis Heart]

I have to say the outing of Dumbledore did come as a shock to me. I guess in the back of my mind it makes sense, but I still can't think of him as being gay. It's just so unreal (funny saying that yes) but that's how I feel. My jaw dropped when I saw that as one of the headlines on AOL.COM. *Is still shaking her head*

[Professor Daniel Hubbles]

Think about it this way though, there had to be some gay lover in their somewhere…..I think JK would have got influenced by the streams and streams of slash fanfics haha! And like she said the amount that will pop up now about Dumbledore now will be brill…..but I still think that him and McGonagall were perfect for each other hehehehe!