I knew it....

About Dumbledore..wow. I would have never guessed!

UMMMMMMMMMMMMM...........

...I KNEW IT! Oh man, wait 'till I show this page at school!

YESSYESS HOW DID I NOT SEE IT BEFORE!? And "Abbott" is spelled wrong. No big deal, but just saying. Top 5?

!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing! I knew it! haha.

I was wondering when you guys would post this. Leaky beat you to it though =[. I'm glad I've got connections with people at the event though.

i knew it! i always had a feeling...

i'm in shock......

i always knew i liked Grindledore...

Im in shock also . Its pretty cool of her though . The dumbly thing , I mean .

Never going to look at dumbledore the same way again. Out of all the people in the HP books to turn gay it was Dmbledore??? Now people are going to call HP fans gay...lol hope it doesn't come to that!! But man this is shocking...I fell off my chair I was so schocked!! Lol but it sort of funny....and I guess gay people will be happy.

omg! when i first heard this i thought was a joke! anyhow it doesn't change my opinion of dumbledore. and the neville thing is different, never would have thought of him marrying hannah.

umm...i guess i now understand why dumbledore spent so much time with harry alone in his office.... :/

I knew it! Just like Snape loved Harry for his eyes, Dumbledore's love was for Harry because he was an old dude stalker! lol Dumbledore's Army forever!

OMG! wow! I didn't see that one coming! I guess I always thought of Dumbledore as asexual, lol. I definitely want to know all of the other stuff she said!!!!!!!

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY IS GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE NEW ANGLE!!! LOLOLOL.....

Why did she have to come up with this? More publicity? I'm just going to ignore this. No offense to anyone who has that life style, but I don't want to picture him being gay.

AWW. that's so sweet about Aunt Petunia. and Neville MARRYING hannah abbot? weird.

Gellert? Laura Mallory is going to have a FIELD day with this!

lol..i personally love it. gives you a whole new reason on why he couldnt face grindelwald to defeat him... he was in love with him.. =] haaha

That's insane!! I had no idea. But it's cool though. Abbille or nevott? -camilo

WHAT??!! omgg!!!! DUMBLEDORE?!?!?!?!?!

Dumbledore? Gay? Re-he-heally? That's interesting...good for him. More power to him. But the point of releasing Dumbledore's sexuality is? Neville married Hannah huh? That's cool.

wow... that's crazy... I didn't expect that of Dumbledore but whatever floats your boat right? and Neville and Hannah? Cute lol! And wow about Petunia.... wow

Um I think I could have lived without that info about Dumby....eww!!! bad pictures!! TMI, Jo!!!!!

You guys realize she only told people he was gay because someone asked if he had ever found love, right? She didn't just randomly say it, she was answering a question.

I always sort of suspected, honestly. But I don't really get why people are freaking out. Considering we never hear a single thing about Dumbledore's love life, I don't see why it really matters, or why people are freaking out. I mean, he doesn't have a 'special friend' he's always hanging out with. Why does it matter?

WHAT THE HECK! he's GAY! dumbldedore was gay! omg..

omg...never would have guessed that. but i guess it makes sense. huh. that really surprised me.

I can't believe that Dumbledore's ! I mean, I guess I can because I never thought of him actually in a relationship. Interesting!! And I love that Neville married Hannah, that's so cute!!!!!!!

LOL, slash fans must be going crazy now. Neville/Hannah? Hannah's such a random character...

Catie, People are just homophobic. That's the way the world works.

I so didn't see that one coming...but its actually pretty cool. Glad to hear that Neville ended up happily married, I was wondering about that...

I suppose, seventysix, but it's rather lame! Especially considering Dumbledore never made a move on Harry or anything. Maybe he also had a big problem with ingrown toenails. That would matter about as much, I think!

uh, it's pretty insulting when people say just because Dumbledore is gay that it changes his relationship with Harry. Being gay doesn't make him a pedophile. Just so you know.

I think Rowling's just starting to make up crazy stuff at this point. She is going to have to write an encyclopedia, after all. Dumbledore is gay? Is it necessary? Who cares about his sexuality and why assign him a sexual preference at all? It's totally irrelevant to the story.

Wow...in shock...and speechless..........PS. Which House was Hannah in? Hufflepuff?

good comment catie, and i agree it really doesn't matter.

So much for all the Dumbledore/McGonagall shippers and fanfics. I think that really does put a different view on Dumbeldore, and wasn't really necessary, but i guess it's her way of showing your sexuality doesn't matter- you can still be great no matter. (Not that I ever thought that, but there are people in the world)

I KNEW IT!! I knew he was gay! That explains everything, the soft voice, the bright clothes, the COCKroach clusters!!! It all makes sense now!! Hahaha! you can't fool me old man~!

Wow....lifestyle, preference, turning gay.... I knew the Trekkers had their share of anti-gay ignorant phobes, I just never really suspected it with the Potter crowd. How very sad for you all. Apparently, you read thebooks, just never understood them.

i have to agree with tonksinlimegreenflipflops ...........the fanfiction..........eh... ........

To say this wasn’t a shock would be a lie. I wonder if the COS forums will now allow people to have homosexuals in their fan fiction.

Pft. Dumbledore, I knew alllllll along. Oh, and I still thing Neville should have married Luna, oh well. :D

Perhaps Dumbledore's sexuality is not relevant enough or appropriate enough to be put in the books, but is still relevant enough to be answered as a question. We know why Snape is single; we may suspect that Slughorn just doesn't want to share his decadent luxuries items with a mate (though people could certainly speculate about him and his Slug Club), but I've always wanted to learn about spouses, or lack thereof, of Hogwarts professors. Perhaps we'll learn, trickle by trickle. That's cool.

Think of all the fanfiction this is going to launch... I'm kinda bummed about Neville and Hannah, though. I'm a big N/L shipper. : (

txrabbit, ignorance has no limits, it goes pretty much everywhere. Although to be fair, I haven't seen any really bad comments. Seems like everyone is at least trying to be cool with it, so hey, PROPS!

Surely this is a joke, right? For me, this ruins the whole series if it is true. I don't think this is an issue Jo would really want to bring up. It would alienate a good deal of her fans.