<b>Dumbledore is Gay!<b>

After reading briefly from her mega-selling book, Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, on Friday night, Rowling took questions from an audience
of 1,600 students. A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular
headmaster of Hogwarts School: 'Did Dumbledore, who believed in the
prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?'
The author replied: 'My truthful answer to you...I always thought of
Dumbledore as gay.' The audience reportedly fell silent - then erupted
into prolonged applause.

Rowling, 42, continued: 'Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad
wizard he defeated long ago], 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 extent, 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.'

She added: 'Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I
was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore
saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, "I knew a girl once,
whose hair..." I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it
along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!"'

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Things that are new:

I have a home by myself. I like living alone and being totally in charge
of myself and my time. I am still sometimes amazed by the fact that I am
an adult. I don't know if other people wonder about this. The idea of
living my own life is just as exciting and mysterious now as it was when I
was 12.

I like the friends that I am getting to know. I love the way social
circles expand and change and the fact that I am always meeting new and
interesting people. There is nothing like the feeling of meeting a new
friend and hanging out together all night or all week, just to enjoy each
others company and conversation. The world can never be boring if there
are always new people to meet and know in all their complexity.

Growth. There are many things about myself that need to grow and change. I
prefer to ignore those things and live in the relm of things that are in
my control, but recently I think I have taken great steps toward making
myself a more healthy and complete person. I am thankful for this, and
also frightened about delving into these parts of myself.

My job. The job I have is not the perfect place I appeared to be from the
outside. I think I knew it would not be. However the people here are
really trying to do good and I have so much to learn from them. This is
the first time in a long time, maybe ever, that I have been in a place
where there was so much to learn. Such a long learning curve is hard for
my controlling personality, but it is good for me. I like it.