Rowling on the Dumbledore announcement

[Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon]

No: HPFGUIDX 178482

J. K. Rowling said more about Dumbledore at her appearance in Toronto. 

 

>From a Reuters article (http://preview.tinyurl.com/23p227):

J.K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her the first billionaire
author, said on Tuesday she was surprised at the fuss surrounding her
announcement the boy wizard's head teacher, Albus Dumbledore, was gay. 

"It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could
love other men," Rowling told a news conference in Toronto, where she is
attending an authors' festival. 

Rowling, a mother-of-three, made the surprise revelation in New York on
Friday, during her first U.S. tour in seven years. 

She said Dumbledore was once infatuated with the winsome wizard Gellert
Grindelwald, but the two became rivals when Grindelwald turned out to be
more interested in the dark than the good arts. Dumbledore went on to
destroy Grindelwald. 

Reaction has been mainly supportive on fans' Web sites, such as The Leaky
Cauldron (www.leakynews.com), where news of Dumbledore's outing has drawn
more than 3,000 comments. 

Rowling declined to say whether her "outing" of Dumbledore might alienate
those who disapprove of homosexuality. 

"He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say
about him," she said. 

panhandle

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Jane Penhaligon

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