JK Rowling burns tweeter over gay Dumbledore line
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JK Rowling has disarmed the incidental bigotry of a tweet about Albus Dumbledore’s sexuality better than the wizard himself could’ve hit a Expelliarmus charm on a Death Eater.
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A fan tweeted to Rowling, saying that she could not see Albus Dumbledore as a homosexual, to which the acclaimed author replied:
.@anakocovic21 Maybe because gay people just look like… people?
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 24, 2015
The Harry Potter author has slowly but surely been revealing more details about the Harry Potter world ever since the last book, The Deathly Hallows, was published in 2007.
That same year she revealed that Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was gay and in love with his rival and powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindlewald.
