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The question was “Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?”
Rowling started to say “I always saw Dumbledore as gay” and a hush fell on the audience, followed by an excited buzz sweeping through the crowd.
Albus Dumbledore Chocolate Frog CardThe brilliant wizard was briefly blinded as a young man by the charm and skill of Gellert Grindelwald, his teenage crush turned arch-nemesis who turned out to be more interested in the Dark Arts than in loving Dumbledore.
That love, she said to raucous applause, was Dumbledore’s “great tragedy.”
After Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down,” Rowling explained, he went on to destroy Grindelwald in what is considered in the wizarding world to have been the ultimate wand-toting battle between good and evil.
To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extend, 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.
