# Albus Dumbledore was... (shocking news inside!!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369 "2007-10-20T03:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/1 "2007-10-20T03:40:38Z")
…gay! Jo Rowling [revealed this](http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more) when at her public appearance at Carnegie Hall today. Wow! Nobody seemed to pick that one. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/2 "2007-10-20T03:46:35Z")
There was no doubt in my mind when I saw that little gold chain in his beard. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/3 "2007-10-20T04:07:10Z")
And this is shocking, why? Not to sound crass, but the man was a flamboyantly dressed lifelong bachelor who lived with a flaming bird. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/4 "2007-10-20T04:13:16Z")
Shocking only because it wasn’t picked. Or not that I heard. It’s not shocking that it should be so. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/5 "2007-10-20T04:13:22Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] And this is shocking, why? Not to sound crass, but the man was a flamboyantly dressed lifelong bachelor who lived with a flaming bird. [/QUOTE] And played with wands… ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/6 "2007-10-20T04:13:29Z")
Does that mean the matter with his brother Aberforth and “the goat incident” (and whose bar still smells strongly of goat, and whose Patronus is a goat)… is what one might think it is? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/7 "2007-10-20T04:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] And played with wands… [/QUOTE] I heard that Dumbledore’s wand was 15 inches long. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/8 "2007-10-20T04:29:12Z")
I shudder in horror to think of all the Dumbledore/Hagrid slashfic that will undoubtedly soon flood the Internet. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/9 "2007-10-20T04:28:36Z")
I know she loves stealing from LOTR, but Rowling _does_ realize that just because Ian McKellen is gay doesn’t mean that Gandalf is also gay, right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/10 "2007-10-20T04:31:48Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] I shudder in horror to think of all the Dumbledore/Hagrid slashfic that will undoubtedly soon flood the Internet. :eek: [/QUOTE] Ha! It’s already\* there\*. Rule 34, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/11 "2007-10-20T04:37:10Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Ha! It’s already\* there\*. Rule 34, my friend. [/QUOTE] Although, true to the general proclivities of slash fiction, the Harry/Snape stories outnumber them by orders of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/12 "2007-10-20T04:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=Soapbox Monkey] I know she loves stealing from LOTR, but Rowling _does_ realize that just because Ian McKellen is gay doesn’t mean that Gandalf is also gay, right? 😛 [/QUOTE] Not sure, but I know it does mean that I was right and that it should have been Ian McKellen playing Dumbledore in the movies all along. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/13 "2007-10-20T04:45:26Z")
“Touch my phoenix, Harry. Do you feel how hot it is?” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/14 "2007-10-20T04:48:32Z")
‘Albus Dumbledore’ can be rearranged to spell ‘So durable lubed’ or ‘Lubed our blades’. Also ‘Balled Euro buds’ and ‘Bull aroused abed’. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/15 "2007-10-20T04:50:06Z")
What if you throw his middle names in there? If I recall correct they were Brian Percival Wulfric. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/16 "2007-10-20T04:54:42Z")
Purple robe, fussy office. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/17 "2007-10-20T07:32:25Z")
I figured it out about halfway through “Deathly Hallows,” when his close friendship with Grindelwald was discussed. I _knew_ they weren’t “just friends”! 😃 I always thought it was curious how all through the series there was no mention of any gay people, wizards or Muggles. I wonder why she waited until now to mention this? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/18 "2007-10-20T08:08:32Z")
Why is this a surprise? As a witch he fornicates with Satan, who is male, and obviously some enjoy it more than others. (Lucius Malfoy is a traditional family values sort of guy so he probably just closes his eyes and balances his checkbook, but Dumbledore’s probably screaming “That all you got bitch?!” since he is, after all, the leader of the Satanic priesthood that the series revolves around.) Let’s see: a gay wizard who’s in charge of 15 year old boys. What does Rowling need to add in to make the Fundies hate her books just a bit more? Perhaps Hermiones “Fetus aborticus!” spell or the Witanagemot passing Wand Control legislation could do it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/19 "2007-10-20T08:20:44Z")
PS- I always thought Neville would be the pooftah and Dumbledore: McGonagall would be revealed to be an item (“Who’s your dark lord?”). So when he was fighting Grindenwald I wonder if they took a break for aural sex. So what would you name Diagon Alley’s gay bar? The golden shower crowd has the publication _Whizzards_, of course, and there are genre pubs like _Gobbledepoof_ and _Don’t Ask Don’t Spell_, but where would the mainstream academic/banker/auror crowd who happen to like wizard on wizard action go. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/20 "2007-10-20T08:32:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] …but where would the mainstream academic/banker/auror crowd who happen to like wizard on wizard action go. [/QUOTE] The Wand Wavers Club? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369.md?page=2)