JK Rowling: Dumbledore gay Rowling marries Harry Potter
October 20, 2007
The Leaky Caludron has published a transcript of JK Rowling’s meet up with the Scholastic’s Open Book Tour sweepstakes one thousand grand prize winners and their guests at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and answered questions from Harry Potter fans. Among the new revelations include the fact that Rowling’s Albus Dumbledore is gay.
From the transcript Rowling explains:
“Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. 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.”
Earlier, on the JK Rowling Open Book Tour appearance, Concord High School on Staten Island senior Kristian Cuzco, asked Rowling who she would choose to marry from the Harry Potter series.
Rowling relied,
“I actually married Harry Potter. My husband’s here, and if you have seen a photo of my husband, I think Harry Potter will look like that once he hits a certain age. I married a really good person. Harry is a really good person. And he’s a gutsy person.”
From a personal perspective, I must confess that being a Harry Potter fan pales in comparison to being a JK Rowling fan. There are several distinct reasons for my admiration of Rowling. First, our children live in a technological world of computers and video game consoles. As a mother and book lover who values the power of reading books, I wondered if books would be abandoned to a long-forgotten shelf gathering dust. The Harry Potter series placed books back in the center of a child’s reading life.
As a writer, I admire Rowling attitude reagrding the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter books are once again on the most-banned books list. To which she responds, “This puts me in the company of Harper Lee, Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, William Golding, and John Steinbeck.” All revered writers, Rowling considers it a great honor to be included on the same list. Exactly right. The banned book list is, for many of us, the must-read book list.
Finally, and most personally relevant, as a woman who spent a few years as a single mother, Rowling is pure inspiration. Previous Harry Potter books have sold more than 300 million copies, earning Rowling a $1.02 billion dollar fortune, according to the U.K.’s Sunday Times. She is now the 10th richest woman in Britain, richer than the Queen of England. A good way to come from the days as an unemployed single mother struggling to keep both herself and her baby warm and fed.