The New York Times has a great opinion piece discussing why JK Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore earlier in the week was unnecessary.

Ms. Rowling quite consciously makes Dumbledore a flawed, more human wizard than these models, but now goes too far. There is something alien about the idea of a mature Dumbledore being called gay or, for that matter, being in love at all. He may have his earthly difficulties and desires, but in most ways he remains the genre wizard, superior to the world around him.

I think I have to agree with this writer. Dumbledore is essentially otherworldly and asexual. Gayness doesn’t really factor in who he is.

Still, the article points to all sorts of hidden hints within the final novel about Dumbledore’s secret past. I may have to re-read the Deathly Hallows again just for that.

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