J.K Rowling Reveals Gay Dumbledore

Here's another tidbit that author J.K Rowling has let slip after the end of HP7, other than the fates of the main characters: Albus Dumbledore is gay.

According to the BBC News article (available in full here):

"Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.

She made her revelation to a packed house in New York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US book tour.

She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found "true love".

"Dumbledore is gay," she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.

The audience gasped, then applauded. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy," she said.

"Falling in love can blind us to an extent," she added, saying Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down" and his love for Grindelwald was his "great tragedy"."

What Ever Happened To Mr. Potter?

J.K. Rowling's epilogue in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, even though satisfying in an old fashion way, left a number of questions, like what the surviving characters ended up to be as adults. She reveals the answers in a recent live web chat.

On Harry:

"Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt."

On Ron:

"Harry's best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes."

On Hermione (who is married to Ron at the end of the book):

"Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children -- Rose and Hugo."

On Ginny (who becomes Harry's wife, at the end of the book):

"His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children -- James, Albus and Lily -- while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet."

On Luna Lovegood:

"Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.""

For the original news article on CNN's website, click here. If you have read this post and you are half-way through the book, I'm so sorry. Should have put up several SPOILER tags in the first place.