# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/261 "2007-10-24T22:00:48Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] **“Wankery”** = the author imagined Dumbledore as gay; let’s write about how Dumbledore _really_ initiates Harry into the “Order” using his special “wand”! [/QUOTE] I don’t think it means what you think it means 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/262 "2007-10-24T22:20:29Z")
it is known that ms rowling did say to the screenwriters of the movies that dumbledore is gay. there had to be a scene change due to her revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/263 "2007-10-24T23:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] Here’s an interesting [comment from Neil Gaiman](http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/10/flowers-of-romance.html) on the subject. [/QUOTE] Thanks for that; tis a great piece. (For those who didn’t read it, Gaiman is asked his opinion of an Atlantic Monthly piece in which Ross Douthat criticizes Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore and states that the most successful author in history has no confidence in her writing; he responds “All that tells us is Ross Douthat doesn’t write fiction”, then gives commentary on fiction in general with Sandman and his other works as examples.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/264 "2007-10-25T00:21:38Z")
Unsurprisingly, [Something Positive](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10232007.shtml) sums it up the best. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/265 "2007-10-25T04:09:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] Get a life. [/QUOTE] Calm down, **Rubystreak**. Cafe Society is meant for discussion of the arts, not for comments about other posters. Instructing others to “get a life” is best meant for the Pit and doesn’t need to be said in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/266 "2007-10-25T04:31:20Z")
Funny, but I was under the impression that all British headmasters were gay. (Please don’t hit me. :() ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/267 "2007-10-25T05:01:16Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Well, I simply disagree. As I said earlier, Dumbledore changes from someone who Does What’s Right (opposed Grindlewald) because he ultimately comes to the conclusion that it _is right_ to someone who conceivably opposed Grindlewald because he’s a spurned lover, and by coincidence Does What’s Right. [/QUOTE] It does? I sure don’t see that changes Dumbledore’s motives. As **Arnold Winkelried** points out, there’s not a lot of emotional distance between a spurned best friend and spurned lover. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/268 "2007-10-25T12:44:33Z")
What happened to Dumbledore at the end of the Harry Potter series? He went pouf. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369/269 "2007-10-25T13:07:33Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Funny, but I was under the impression that all British headmasters were gay. (Please don’t hit me. :() [/QUOTE] Well, at the very least, it throws the position of Head Boy into a whole new light. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albus-dumbledore-was-shocking-news-inside/423369.md?page=13)