J.K. Rowling had the perfect response for a fan who didn’t understand how the Harry Potter author could make Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore gay.
A fan named Ana Kocovic wrote to Rowling, “Thank you so much for writing Harry Potter. I wonder why you said that Dumbledore is a gay because I can’t see him in that way.” That message has since been deleted, but Rowling still has her response up.
“Maybe because gay people just look like... people?” Rowling replied.
As The Independent points out, Rowling told fans that Dumbledore is gay in 2007, just after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published.
“It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men,” Rowling said in the past about the character. “He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say about him."
Rowling has never been shy about diversity in the Harry Potter universe. In December, she told fans on Twitter that “of course” there were LGBT students at Hogwarts.
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