Is Dumbledore asexual?

"Dumbledore is gay," Rowling said in response to a fan who asked if the Hogwarts headmaster ever found true love. She reiterated that this was the "great tragedy" of his life.
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Was Dumbledore a queer?

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling revealed Dumbledore was gay in 2009, but the movies had never explicitly referenced the character's sexuality until this third “Fantastic Beasts” entry. Warner Bros. accepted China's request to remove six seconds from the movie.
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Are there any Lgbtq characters in Harry Potter?

Now, out of all these characters, there is only one who is confirmed as gay (or otherwise not heterosexual), and that character is Albus Dumbledore, who has yet to be explicited as gay in canon and was only revealed as such during an interview in 2007.
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Who did Dumbledore slept with?

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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has angered her fanbase after confirming beloved character Albus Dumbledore had a "passionate" sexual relationship with Fantastic Beasts villain Gellert Grindelwald.
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Did Dumbledore ever have a lover?

^ Actually, it's confirmed canon that Dumbledore is gay and was in love with Grindelwald.
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Professor Dumbledore backstory with Grindelwald in Fantastic Beast The Crimes Of Grindelwald



Who was Grindelwald in love with?

Furthermore, during Fantastic Beasts 3, after Grindelwald's attempt to defeat Dumbledore in a duel, the former asks Dumbledore who will love him now that their blood pact is destroyed, confirming that Grindelwald did love him.
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Why is Dumbledore's hand Black?

After Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts, he used Godric Gryffindor's Sword to crack the Resurrection Stone so as to destroy it as a Horcrux. While the act did destroy the ring as one of Riddle's Horcruxes, it did not stop the fatal curse. The curse gave Dumbledore's hand a withered black look, as though it had died.
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Was Dumbledore romantically with Grindelwald?

Were Dumbledore & Grindelwald In A Romantic Relationship? Though the Harry Potter series and Fantastic Beasts franchise have spent time side-stepping the subject thus far, Albus Dumbledore is gay and had a romantic relationship with Gellert Grindelwald in canon lore.
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Was Dumbledore and Grindelwald boyfriend?

Author JK Rowling announced Albus Dumbledore was gay in 2007. It's known that he and Grindelwald were in a romantic relationship but it had never been explored in the previous Harry Potter films.
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Did Grindelwald and Dumbledore sleep together?

Harry Potter writer JK Rowling has said there was a 'sexual dimension' to the 'intense' relationship between her fictional wizards Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.
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Is Charlie Weasley asexual?

Then, a few months ago, shortly after I discovered asexuality, I found this headcanon that Charlie Weasley was aro/ace. JK Rowling said in a documentary/interview that Charlie never married, that he wasn't gay, but just more interested in dragons. Many of you will know this.
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Is Tonks non binary?

Like millions of other Harry Potter fans who dared to project ourselves into the books, I was ultimately disappointed: By the end of the series, Tonks was a married, fully binary woman, softer and gentler, letting her husband feminize her as “Dora” — a name she'd previously hated.
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Are there any LGBT characters in Disney?

The Disney Channel, which launched in 1983, Disney XD, which began in 2009, Disney Junior, which launched in 2011, and shows on Disney+, along with the short-lived Toon Disney, have all occasionally featured lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) characters in their programming.
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Is Secrets of Dumbledore Lgbtq?

One of the biggest complaints fans have about Dumbledore's sexuality isn't that he's gay; it's that we're repeatedly told he's gay rather than shown. The Secrets of Dumbledore is the first official movie in the Harry Potter franchise to openly reference his sexuality, but it's limited to a select few scenes.
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Does Dumbledore have a wife?

Loyalty. Kendra Dumbledore (c. 1851 – Summer 1899) was a witch (possibly a Muggle-born but unconfirmed) and the wife of Percival Dumbledore.
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Did Albus Dumbledore have a child?

However, Credence being Dumbledore's son in Fantastic Beasts does fit into the timeline. Assuming the year of Credence's birth is correct, which can be seen via the official birth certificate prop by MinaLima for the Fantastic Beasts movie, Dumbledore would have certainly been old enough to father a child.
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Is Voldemort a Grindelwald?

For the Greater Good. Gellert Grindelwald's slogan. Gellert Grindelwald (1883-1998) was considered to be one of the most powerful Dark Wizards of all time, second only to Tom Marvolo Riddle, who later became known as Lord Voldemort. He was schooled at Durmstrang Institute until his expulsion.
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Why is Grindelwald's eye white?

He's twins in one body. So a gamey eye is more like the other side of him. Sort of like a brain for each eye, an albino twin, and he's somewhere in the middle. Per his interview with Entertainment Weekly, it looks like Johnny Depp has taken his role as Grindelwald quite acutely with this character detail.
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Is Dumbledore a pureblood?

An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, some of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact either half-blood (such as Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Harry Potter) or ...
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Why is Johnny Depp not in Fantastic Beasts?

Johnny Depp was removed from the Fantastic Beasts franchise by Warner Bros after he lost his libel case against the UK tabloid The Sun, which had referred to him as a “wife-beater” amid his divorce from Amber Heard. A London court found the domestic violence allegations against Depp to be “substantially true”.
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What was Dumbledore drinking?

It is emerald green in the books. Also, in the book version, Dumbledore conjured a crystal cup out of thin air to drink the potion, while in the movie version, there was a seashell-shaped cup placed on top of the basin (originally a crystal cup in the script).
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Is the One Ring a Horcrux?

6 The Ring Is Basically A Horcrux

As Gandalf tells Frodo before he sets out on his quest from Bag End, “[Sauron] made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it.”
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What was Dumbledore's curse?

Gaunt's ring

After retrieving the ring Albus Dumbledore himself fell victim to a curse that, even when contained, would likely have killed him within the year.
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Why does Abernathy have a forked tongue?

Protect the secrets! "You have joined a noble cause, my friend." Grindelwald rewarded his loyal servant Abernathy with a new forked-tongue for helping him escape the Aurors who were transporting him from MACUSA in New York to Europe.
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