In Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis uses the character of Aslan as a portrayal of the Christians Savior, Jesus Christ. Lewis did not go on tour and at the end say, “Oh by the way, Aslan is Jesus and he will take you to eternal joy!” Whether Rowling wants Dumbledore or not, it was up to her to have portrayed this to the reader throughout the whole series, or even as a bomb-shell in the books, but the time for this has passed. If in another millennia archeologist unearthed her books, would they know for certain, or at all, this new life style of Dumbledore. For Rowling to make this claim now would be about as hard as saying Harry Potter is a female. The evidence is not there to support this claim, plus, validity for Rowling has been lost on the single grounds that she had to inform the world to this new claim.
The sub-theme is not valid, as is not present in the books, and it sure as hell is not valid just because she “always saw Dumbledore as gay.” (Rowling, 2007. Interview) We had to see him as gay as well for it to be true literary quality.

Please, all of you crazed Harry Potter fans, do not attempt to kill me for my condemning words for J.K. Rowling. I do understand your views as I am one of you. I still love and adore this series and do still hold Rowling in the deepest respect as a writer. I see her as pure genius in the writing of Harry Potter and thank her for sharing this world of excitement and magical adventure with us all.

Thanks to everyone who has posted in a clean and professional manner; to you I write.

I am very angry about the revelation. Dumbledore in the first 6 books was also the one everyone looked up to (especially Harry!) He was the wise, smart, nice, compassionate, old man in charge and always knew what to do. We were given the impression that Dumbledore was a near perfect man (not speaking of his childhood). Then, in the seventh book, JK Rowling showed that even Dumbledore made mistakes and bad choices in his life and that he did not have the easiest childhood. This was a big part of the book. Harry kept feeling like he didn’t want to believe the things in Reeta Skeeter’s book (and some things probably were not true). Then, at the end, after looking the pensieve (and seeing Dumbledore telling Snape that Harry must die at the hand of Voldemort), Harry felt betrayed and angry at Dumbledore. Finally, at the end, we see Dumbledore in the limbo between life and death. Harry talks to him and Dumbledore tells him that he guessed that Harry could go back and a bunch of other stuff. This made Harry feel better about Dumbledore (and me!!)

But wasn’t this enough picking on Dumbledore? Turning him from the wise, wonderful man (who was my favorite character) to a normal but still wonderful man (after the seventh book – he was still one of my favorite characters). And now she turns him into a gay old man. (Michael Gambon does seem to fit this new part better than Richard Harris. . .sarcasm. . .I always liked Richard Harris much better as Dumbledore).

I am very angered by this new revelation. It didn’t make it into the books, I’m glad, but, unliess she takes back her revelation and it doesn’t make it into the encyclopedia, it still ruined my view of Dumbledore, my used to be favorite character, forever.