Is Dumbledore gay? Why J.K. Rowlg's ntual LGBT character revisnism the 'Fantastic Beast' anchise is gettg old for Harry Potter fans
Contents:
- SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
- DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
- SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
- J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
- WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE
- WARNER BROS. REMOV ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ DIALOGUE ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIP FOR CHA
- NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS
- DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
- FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE EDED CHA TO REMOVE GAY DIALOGUE
- NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MSTHE MAGIC IS GONEIT’S TIME TO PUT THIS MIDDLG, MONEY-MAKG ANCHISE OUT TO PASTURE. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED APR. 05, 2022 10:00AM EDT COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURFANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD THAT JT AS THAT 2018 PRECSOR FEATURED VIRTUALLY NO CRIM, THIS THIRD STALLMENT THE HARRY POTTER PREQUEL ANCHISE BOASTS NO GENUE SECRETS. THE REVELATN THAT DUMBLEDORE IS GAY IS BOTH NOT A BOMBSHELL (SCE WAS OVERTLY IMPLIED BY THE LAST FILM, FOLLOWG YEARS OF PUBLIC CLARATNS BY J.K. ROWLG HERSELF) AND THE SORT OF TEPID EYE-OPENER THAT ONLY THE MOST DIE-HARD OF POTTERPHIL WILL RE ABOUT—SOMETHG THAT N ALSO BE SAID ABOUT THE ENAVOR AS A WHOLE. FUNCTNAL YET NEVER MAGIL, THIS PERFUNCTORY B OF IP EXPLOATN IS A REMR THAT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END, EVEN IF THE POWERS-THAT-BE KEEP KG THEM FOR ALL THEY’RE WORTH. DIRECTED BY DAVID YAT, WHO’S NOW HELMED THE PAST SEVEN SERI ENTRI AND ULD LIKELY E A NEW SANDBOX WHICH TO PLAY, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE CLUS NEHER TRANS CHARACTERS NOR ANTI-TRANS SENTIMENTS, WHICH SHOULD KEEP OM TAKG CENTER STAGE CREATOR AND -WRER ROWLG’S NEVER-ENDG TERF WAR. WHAT DO HAVE, MERCIFULLY, IS A NSIRABLY LS NVOLUTED PLOT THAN THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, WHICH TANGLED SELF UP KNOTS TO NO APPRECIABLE END. ROWLG AND ANCHISE VET STEVE KLOV STREAMLE THEIR SCRIPT AS MUCH AS IS HUMANELY POSSIBLE, TH PROVIDG A MEASURE OF MOMENTUM THAT WAS ABSENT OM THE PRR OUTG. IN TERMS OF PACE, THE FILM PROV RELATIVELY SWIFT, AND IF STILL GETS BOGGED DOWN A FEW UNNECSARY TOURS, GENERALLY MATAS URSE THROUGHOUT, CULMATG WH A SWEET AND SATISFYG DA.PICKG UP WHERE THE CRIM OF GRLWALD LEFT OFF, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FDS HOGWARTS PROFSOR ALB DUMBLEDORE (JU LAW) ENLISTG BEAST WHISPERER NEWT SMANR (EDDIE REDMAYNE), HIS BROTHER THS (CALLUM TURNER), MUGGLE BAKER JAB KOWALSKI (DAN FOGLER), AND TWO ADDNAL WIZARDS—LALLY HICKS (JSI WILLIAMS) AND YUF KAMA (WILLIAM NADYLAM)—OR A WORLD-SAVG ASSIGNMENT: THWART THE PLANS OF GELLERT GRLWALD (MADS MIKKELSEN), WHO WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST HUMANKD ORR TO SOLIDIFY MAGIL PEOPLE’S PLACE ATOP THE EVOLUTNARY FOOD CHA. DUMBLEDORE N’T PERSONALLY TAKE DOWN GRLWALD BEE, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG LOVERS, THEY STCK A MAGIL PACT THAT PREVENTED THEM OM ENGAGG DIRECT BAT—A NVENIENT TWIST (RRIED OVER OM THE LAST FILM) THAT’S FURTHER PLITED BY GRLWALD OBTAG AND KILLG A MAGIL CREATURE THAT GIV HIM THE ABILY TO SEE TO THE FUTURE. TO PE WH THAT SUATN, DUMBLEDORE NCTS A SCHEME WHICH NONE OF HIS ACPLIC UNRSTAND PLETELY, THEREBY CREATG NFG MOV AND MOTIVATNS THAT GRLWALD N’T CIPHER. THERE’S NO MENTN OF THE FACT THAT GRLWALD NOW LOOKS LIKE MIKKELSEN RATHER THAN JOHNNY DEPP, AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY THG ELID THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE; THE SILG OF ORIGAL ANCHISE -LEAD KATHERE WATERSTON IS ALSO PAFULLY NSPICUO. SUCH CLUNKS IS FELT ELSEWHERE AS WELL, BE WILLIAMS ASSUMG ZOë KRAVZ’S ROLE AS THE PROCEEDGS’ HEROIC PERSON OF LOR (AND APPARENT THS ROMANTIC TERT), QUEENIE’S (ALISON SUDOL) NTUED, NTRIVED CISN TO STICK WH GRLWALD SPE WANTG TO BE WH HER BELOVED JAB, OR THE HANDY DISVERY THAT GRLWALD’S FORIGHT-BTOWG CREATURE HAS A TW SIBLG THAT WDS UP NEWT’S RE (THEREBY GIVG HIM A UNTER TO HIS ADVERSARY’S POWER). AS WH HER PREV FANTASTIC BEASTS SCREENPLAYS, THERE’S A SENSE THAT ROWLG IS MAKG UP NEW L AND PARADIGMS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY VISG EXPEDIENT WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT THEM, WHICH NTERS A GOOD AL OF THE DRAMA’S STAK. GRLWALD IS AN TOLERANT -AGAST-THEM TYRANT AND THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE STS HIS POLIL ASCENSN OBV NAZI TERMS, REPLETE WH GERMANY’S MISTRY OF MAGIC NSPIRG TO MAKE HIM A NDIDATE THE ELECTN FOR LEAR OF THE WIZARDG WORLD. HOW GRLWALD MIGHT RENCILE HIS HLER ASPIRATNS AND HIS HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, IS NEVER PROPERLY ADDRSED—NOR IS JEWISH JAB’S HORROR OVER THIS TURN OF EVENTS—JT AS DUMBLEDORE’S ORIGAL KSHIP WH GRLWALD (AND HIS E) IS SKIMMED OVER LT ANYONE PAY TOO CLOSE ATTENTN TO S UNBELIEVABILY. YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT. “YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT.” A FUNDAMENTAL SHORTG OF THE ENTIRE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE IS THAT, UNLIKE THE HARRY POTTER SAGA, NEWT’S RELATNSHIP TO THE GRANR BATTLE AGAST GRLWALD IS TANGENTIAL; STEAD OF HAVG A PERSONAL NNECTN TO THE FIGHT (AS HARRY DID WH VOLMORT), HE’S SIMPLY A NICE GUY SWEPT UP A LARGER SOCPOLIL STORM. REDMAYNE NTU TO DO HIS UAL TWCHY-WEIRDO ROUTE, BUT HE FEELS LS CENTRAL TO THE STORY THAN EVER BEFORE, SCE ROWLG MAK HIM AND HIS HORT BLD PAWNS OF DUMBLEDORE, WHO’S ALSO NOT MUCH OF A CHARISMATIC PRENCE, THIS SPE ROWLG GIVG HIM SOME ADDNAL FAY-TRAGEDY BAGGAGE AND LAW EMBODYG HIM WH THE RIGHT MIXTURE OF NOBILY, POSURE, AND SOUL. THE FILM’S TLE NOTWHSTANDG, DUMBLEDORE IS A LIKABLE PUPPET MASTER WHO’S NOT VERY ENIGMATIC, CLUDG WHEN TO HIS PREFERENCE FOR MEN—A TOPIC THAT HE DISCS WH THE SUALNS OF SOMEONE WHO DON’T THK HE’S SAYG ANYTHG SURPRISG. MADS MIKKELSEN AS GELLERT GRLWALD FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORECOURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR TRADG DEPP’S ORNATE HAIR AND STUMG FOR A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD SU-AND-TIE STYLE, MIKKELSEN IS THE FT ASPECT OF THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE. YET HE’S NIED AN OPPORTUNY TO TLY ENLIVEN THIS TALE, WHICH PREFERS TO WASTE TIME ON GRLWALD’S MN—AND SUPPOSED WEAPON OF DUMBLEDORE STCTN—CRENCE BAREBONE (EZRA MILLER), A PETULANT BORE WHO, LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE, ACROSS AS A NARRATIVE VICE MASQUERADG AS A FLH-AND-BLOOD PERSON. THE FACT THAT ONE N UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON OM MOMENT TO MOMENT IS, LIGHT OF THE CRIM OF GRLWALD’S HEAD-SPNG PLITNS, A SMALL RELIEF. AND YAT’ STEWARDSHIP REMAS EFFICIENT, FULL OF LUCIDLY IMAGATIVE SET PIEC THAT NEVER QUE OVERWHELM THE MATERIAL’S EMOTNS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TENTPOLE’S CLOCKWORK MANVERS ARE SO ROTE THAT THERE’S NO SPENSE DURG S TIM OF GREAT PERIL, AND NO ELATN OVER S TRIUMPHS. IT’S MERELY MORE OF THE SAME SPECTACLE THAT ROWLG HAS BEEN PEDDLG FOR S, RRIED OUT WH REASONABLE PANACHE BUT GENERATG DIMISHG-RETURNS EXCEMENT. NICK SCHAGER
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?
SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore clip. * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
And nsirg the tle of the film — which refers to some hidn mysteri the past of Hogwarts headmaster and future Harry Potter mentor Alb Dumbledore (Ju Law) — there might be one qutn loomg over this latt “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them” film: jt how gay is ? Followg the publitn of the fal “Harry Potter” novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” 2007, Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and that his prr relatnship wh famed evil wizard Grlwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen), was ed romantic.
But now, two movi and wh a much more sympathetic Grlwald, they fally n properly explore Dumbledore’s romantic entanglement wh a very mad rultg film is perhaps gayer than you were expectg, but not nearly as gay as should be. ) And that’s about as emotnally naked (and gay) as the movie are a uple more passg referenc to their relatnship sprkled throughout the very long film. Rowlg first clared that Alb Dumbledore is gay, the new Fantastic Beasts movie has fally ma non.
The Harry Potter thor first ma headl 2007 when she revealed that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " speakg to fans at a post-publitn event for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On one hand, 's surprisgly rehg to see a mastream tentpole movie wh a nonilly gay tle character — pecially one who acknowledg his sexualy on screen. Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 2007, JK Rowlg rocked the world of Harry Potter fans after revealg that she always thought Alb Dumbledore was gay.
DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
Here’s a sign of how far the world has e: Some fans are upset that “Fantastic Beasts 2” is not gog to let Dumbledore be openly gay. * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
Fans were eply shaken bee nothg the books dited the Hogwarts headmaster beg homosexual bis JK alludg to his once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard Gellert, fally, Dumbledore and Grlwald have got their gay moment on the show when the former nfs his love for the villa.
SEE: What happened to Fez Mallatia as rapper reveals he is battlg an illnsScreenshots om Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Dumbledore’s First ArmyDumbledore gets a gay moment Fantastic Beasts 3In a new clip om Fantastic Beasts 3, we see Dumbledore nfsg his love to Grlwald.
(@avillashoe) March 17, 2022 View Tweet Gay Dumbledore is the only reason I am watchg the new HP movi. Rowlg over the years, cludg Alb Dumbledore's sexual orientatn – so, is Dumbledore gay, and what is his relatnship wh Gellert Grlwald? Outsi the movi, Rowlg answered the "is Dumbledore gay?
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
* is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
When Alb Dumbledore Was Confirmed To Be Gay.
Those spicns were nfirmed 2007 durg a readg of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce at Carnegie Hall, where Rowlg was asked if Dumbledore ever fell love, and she replied that she “always thought of Dumbledore as gay” even revealg that Dumbledore had been love wh Gellert Grlwald.
Rowlg even shared that a le the early script for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce had Dumbledore sayg he “knew a girl once, ” and she had to add a note on the marg lettg them know that Dumbledore is gay.
SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
Warner Bros. has accepted Cha’s requt to remove dialogue that allus to a gay relatnship the upg film “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.” The six sends of dialogue, which referenc the romantic past between the male characters Alb Dumbledore and Gellert Grlwald, was removed om the film’s total ntime of 142 mut. The l “bee I was love wh you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell love” were eded out upon Cha’s requt. * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
Why Dumbledore Wasn't Confirmed As Gay In Harry Potter Movi Or Books. Rowlg's rponse to "is Dumbledore gay? While some praised that a big character the children’s book seri was gay, others qutned Rowlg’s cisn to nfirm the spicns of fans after the book seri me to an end and Dumbledore died, th leavg no chance for the exploratn of Dumbledore’s sexualy… unls there was a prequel seri of some kd.
” However, Fantastic Beasts never explicly ma clear Dumbledore is gay. Why Fantastic Beasts Don't Explicly Confirm That Dumbledore Is Gay. However, the film qutn never explicly stat that Alb is gay.
J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
Warner Bros. removed gay dialogue om Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore at the requt of the Che ernment. * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
The Harry Potter TV Seri Can Portray Dumbledore As Openly Gay.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
Courty of Warner Bros. PicturFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore follows the footsteps of Fantastic Beasts: The Crim of Grlwald that jt as that 2018 precsor featured virtually no crim, this third stallment the Harry Potter prequel anchise boasts no genue secrets. The revelatn that Dumbledore is gay is both not a bombshell (sce was overtly implied by the last film, followg years of public claratns by J.K. Rowlg herself) and the sort of tepid * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
When lookg at the qutn "is Dumbledore gay?, " there is a new chance to answer . This uld also allow to portray Dumbledore as openly gay om the start and not have to hi his sexualy to ter to a more fay-iendly prentatn, as the Fantastic Beasts movi did. This is not to say that the new prentatn has to be explic or tense, as Rowlg lled , but n show that Dumbledore is gay whout any need for ambiguy.
The answer to "is Dumbledore gay? Rowlg announced she had always imaged one of the ma characters the “Harry Potter” seri -- Alb Dumbledore -- to be gay. Slack is credibly fluent “Potter” textual analysis, and we knew that if anyone uld predict Rowlg’s curveball, would be COVERAGE: Harry PotterSpeakg om his home Boston, Slack said he hadn’t gused that Dumbledore was gay, but hdsight, he was able to pot to specific character tras of the Hogwarts headmaster that might have dited his sexual orientatn.
Below he tells seven textual clu that Dumbledore was gay.
WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE
Gay schoolboy and huge Harry Potter fan Jack is rigned to havg a Hufflepuff type of life, but dreams of changg his story, beg sorted to Gryffdor and g * is dumbledore gay in secrets of dumbledore *
And, of urse, a popular thought among many scholars is that the matro Leonardo was gay. The fact that so few of realized he was gay.
“No matter how many ‘clu’ I n put down that Dumbledore was gay, no matter how many lns of people have read the books aga and aga, Rowlg surprised even the most die-hard fans wh the announcement that Dumbledore was gay. And the end, the fact that we never would have gused is what mak Dumbledore beg gay so real.
So many tim I have enuntered iends who are gay that I never would have predicted. Here’s a sign of how far the world has e: Some fans are upset that “Fantastic Beasts 2” is not gog to let Dumbledore be openly gay. Rowlg revealed 2007 that the Hogwarts School headmaster was gay after the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” the fal book the boy wizard seri.
WARNER BROS. REMOV ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ DIALOGUE ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIP FOR CHA
In 2015, she fend what she said after a fan tweeted her, askg, “I wonr why you said that Dumbledore is gay bee I n’t see him that way. Rowlg’s reply to cric of gay Dumbledore.
Rowlg tweeted back: “Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people? Her first and perhaps most well-known foray to this revisnism was her assertn that Dumbledore, Harry’s beloved schoolmaster, was gay.
But by the time the first “Fantastic Beasts” film arrived, gay marriage was legal both untri and society was shiftg leftward. “But as happens any relatnship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on , one never knows really what the other person is feelg.
NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS
Has accepted Cha’s requt to remove dialogue that allus to a gay relatnship the upg film “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Rowlg revealed at a 2007 fan event for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” that Dumbledore intifi as gay. Rowlg revealed Dumbledore is gay, "Harry Potter" fans fally saw that backstory play out onscreen the third prequel spoff "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. That he's gay???
"I love so much how they're handlg Dumbledore beg gay... " "I always saw Dumbledore as gay, " Rowlg said rponse to a fan qutn about Dumbledore's love life. Some teased that the movie will pict Dumbeldore as gay and unver his sexualy’s mystery.
DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
Secrets of Dumbledore… so is gay or what. She also claimed that Dumbledore ed to have a gay nnectn wh Gellert Grdlewald, who appears the “Fantastic Beasts” films.
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE EDED CHA TO REMOVE GAY DIALOGUE
Rowlg first clared that Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthiast, was gay. "But as happens any relatnship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on , one never knows really what the other person is feelg. " Below, EW breaks down the Harry Potter anchise's long history of alludg to Dumbledore's orientatn, whout actually pictg him as gay on screen.
Pictur October 2007: Rowlg reveals Dumbledore is gay The thor appeared at Carnegie Hall 2007 to answer fan qutns after the publitn of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When asked whether Dumbledore had ever found love, Rowlg rpond that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay.
She also said that she asked the Harry Potter filmmakers to lete a le the Half-Blood Prce movie where Dumbledore remisc about a girl he once knew: "I had to wre a ltle note the marg and sli along to the scriptwrer: 'Dumbledore's gay!
NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MSTHE MAGIC IS GONEIT’S TIME TO PUT THIS MIDDLG, MONEY-MAKG ANCHISE OUT TO PASTURE. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED APR. 05, 2022 10:00AM EDT COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURFANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD THAT JT AS THAT 2018 PRECSOR FEATURED VIRTUALLY NO CRIM, THIS THIRD STALLMENT THE HARRY POTTER PREQUEL ANCHISE BOASTS NO GENUE SECRETS. THE REVELATN THAT DUMBLEDORE IS GAY IS BOTH NOT A BOMBSHELL (SCE WAS OVERTLY IMPLIED BY THE LAST FILM, FOLLOWG YEARS OF PUBLIC CLARATNS BY J.K. ROWLG HERSELF) AND THE SORT OF TEPID EYE-OPENER THAT ONLY THE MOST DIE-HARD OF POTTERPHIL WILL RE ABOUT—SOMETHG THAT N ALSO BE SAID ABOUT THE ENAVOR AS A WHOLE. FUNCTNAL YET NEVER MAGIL, THIS PERFUNCTORY B OF IP EXPLOATN IS A REMR THAT ALL GOOD THGS E TO AN END, EVEN IF THE POWERS-THAT-BE KEEP KG THEM FOR ALL THEY’RE WORTH. DIRECTED BY DAVID YAT, WHO’S NOW HELMED THE PAST SEVEN SERI ENTRI AND ULD LIKELY E A NEW SANDBOX WHICH TO PLAY, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE CLUS NEHER TRANS CHARACTERS NOR ANTI-TRANS SENTIMENTS, WHICH SHOULD KEEP OM TAKG CENTER STAGE CREATOR AND -WRER ROWLG’S NEVER-ENDG TERF WAR. WHAT DO HAVE, MERCIFULLY, IS A NSIRABLY LS NVOLUTED PLOT THAN THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, WHICH TANGLED SELF UP KNOTS TO NO APPRECIABLE END. ROWLG AND ANCHISE VET STEVE KLOV STREAMLE THEIR SCRIPT AS MUCH AS IS HUMANELY POSSIBLE, TH PROVIDG A MEASURE OF MOMENTUM THAT WAS ABSENT OM THE PRR OUTG. IN TERMS OF PACE, THE FILM PROV RELATIVELY SWIFT, AND IF STILL GETS BOGGED DOWN A FEW UNNECSARY TOURS, GENERALLY MATAS URSE THROUGHOUT, CULMATG WH A SWEET AND SATISFYG DA.PICKG UP WHERE THE CRIM OF GRLWALD LEFT OFF, THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE FDS HOGWARTS PROFSOR ALB DUMBLEDORE (JU LAW) ENLISTG BEAST WHISPERER NEWT SMANR (EDDIE REDMAYNE), HIS BROTHER THS (CALLUM TURNER), MUGGLE BAKER JAB KOWALSKI (DAN FOGLER), AND TWO ADDNAL WIZARDS—LALLY HICKS (JSI WILLIAMS) AND YUF KAMA (WILLIAM NADYLAM)—OR A WORLD-SAVG ASSIGNMENT: THWART THE PLANS OF GELLERT GRLWALD (MADS MIKKELSEN), WHO WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST HUMANKD ORR TO SOLIDIFY MAGIL PEOPLE’S PLACE ATOP THE EVOLUTNARY FOOD CHA. DUMBLEDORE N’T PERSONALLY TAKE DOWN GRLWALD BEE, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG LOVERS, THEY STCK A MAGIL PACT THAT PREVENTED THEM OM ENGAGG DIRECT BAT—A NVENIENT TWIST (RRIED OVER OM THE LAST FILM) THAT’S FURTHER PLITED BY GRLWALD OBTAG AND KILLG A MAGIL CREATURE THAT GIV HIM THE ABILY TO SEE TO THE FUTURE. TO PE WH THAT SUATN, DUMBLEDORE NCTS A SCHEME WHICH NONE OF HIS ACPLIC UNRSTAND PLETELY, THEREBY CREATG NFG MOV AND MOTIVATNS THAT GRLWALD N’T CIPHER. THERE’S NO MENTN OF THE FACT THAT GRLWALD NOW LOOKS LIKE MIKKELSEN RATHER THAN JOHNNY DEPP, AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY THG ELID THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE; THE SILG OF ORIGAL ANCHISE -LEAD KATHERE WATERSTON IS ALSO PAFULLY NSPICUO. SUCH CLUNKS IS FELT ELSEWHERE AS WELL, BE WILLIAMS ASSUMG ZOë KRAVZ’S ROLE AS THE PROCEEDGS’ HEROIC PERSON OF LOR (AND APPARENT THS ROMANTIC TERT), QUEENIE’S (ALISON SUDOL) NTUED, NTRIVED CISN TO STICK WH GRLWALD SPE WANTG TO BE WH HER BELOVED JAB, OR THE HANDY DISVERY THAT GRLWALD’S FORIGHT-BTOWG CREATURE HAS A TW SIBLG THAT WDS UP NEWT’S RE (THEREBY GIVG HIM A UNTER TO HIS ADVERSARY’S POWER). AS WH HER PREV FANTASTIC BEASTS SCREENPLAYS, THERE’S A SENSE THAT ROWLG IS MAKG UP NEW L AND PARADIGMS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY VISG EXPEDIENT WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT THEM, WHICH NTERS A GOOD AL OF THE DRAMA’S STAK. GRLWALD IS AN TOLERANT -AGAST-THEM TYRANT AND THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE STS HIS POLIL ASCENSN OBV NAZI TERMS, REPLETE WH GERMANY’S MISTRY OF MAGIC NSPIRG TO MAKE HIM A NDIDATE THE ELECTN FOR LEAR OF THE WIZARDG WORLD. HOW GRLWALD MIGHT RENCILE HIS HLER ASPIRATNS AND HIS HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, IS NEVER PROPERLY ADDRSED—NOR IS JEWISH JAB’S HORROR OVER THIS TURN OF EVENTS—JT AS DUMBLEDORE’S ORIGAL KSHIP WH GRLWALD (AND HIS E) IS SKIMMED OVER LT ANYONE PAY TOO CLOSE ATTENTN TO S UNBELIEVABILY. YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT. “YAT DISTRACTS DIENC OM FOCG ON FAR-FETCHED AND/OR ILLOGIL ELEMENTS WH LOTS OF CGI RAZZLE-DAZZLE. MUCH OF THAT IS IMPRSIVELY MOUNTED, ALBE A NOW-FAIAR MANNER; THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIM ONE N SEE MEN AND WOMEN PRODUCE WONRS VIA THEIR WANDS BEFORE ALL BE OLD HAT.” A FUNDAMENTAL SHORTG OF THE ENTIRE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE IS THAT, UNLIKE THE HARRY POTTER SAGA, NEWT’S RELATNSHIP TO THE GRANR BATTLE AGAST GRLWALD IS TANGENTIAL; STEAD OF HAVG A PERSONAL NNECTN TO THE FIGHT (AS HARRY DID WH VOLMORT), HE’S SIMPLY A NICE GUY SWEPT UP A LARGER SOCPOLIL STORM. REDMAYNE NTU TO DO HIS UAL TWCHY-WEIRDO ROUTE, BUT HE FEELS LS CENTRAL TO THE STORY THAN EVER BEFORE, SCE ROWLG MAK HIM AND HIS HORT BLD PAWNS OF DUMBLEDORE, WHO’S ALSO NOT MUCH OF A CHARISMATIC PRENCE, THIS SPE ROWLG GIVG HIM SOME ADDNAL FAY-TRAGEDY BAGGAGE AND LAW EMBODYG HIM WH THE RIGHT MIXTURE OF NOBILY, POSURE, AND SOUL. THE FILM’S TLE NOTWHSTANDG, DUMBLEDORE IS A LIKABLE PUPPET MASTER WHO’S NOT VERY ENIGMATIC, CLUDG WHEN TO HIS PREFERENCE FOR MEN—A TOPIC THAT HE DISCS WH THE SUALNS OF SOMEONE WHO DON’T THK HE’S SAYG ANYTHG SURPRISG. MADS MIKKELSEN AS GELLERT GRLWALD FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORECOURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR TRADG DEPP’S ORNATE HAIR AND STUMG FOR A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD SU-AND-TIE STYLE, MIKKELSEN IS THE FT ASPECT OF THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE. YET HE’S NIED AN OPPORTUNY TO TLY ENLIVEN THIS TALE, WHICH PREFERS TO WASTE TIME ON GRLWALD’S MN—AND SUPPOSED WEAPON OF DUMBLEDORE STCTN—CRENCE BAREBONE (EZRA MILLER), A PETULANT BORE WHO, LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE, ACROSS AS A NARRATIVE VICE MASQUERADG AS A FLH-AND-BLOOD PERSON. THE FACT THAT ONE N UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON OM MOMENT TO MOMENT IS, LIGHT OF THE CRIM OF GRLWALD’S HEAD-SPNG PLITNS, A SMALL RELIEF. AND YAT’ STEWARDSHIP REMAS EFFICIENT, FULL OF LUCIDLY IMAGATIVE SET PIEC THAT NEVER QUE OVERWHELM THE MATERIAL’S EMOTNS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TENTPOLE’S CLOCKWORK MANVERS ARE SO ROTE THAT THERE’S NO SPENSE DURG S TIM OF GREAT PERIL, AND NO ELATN OVER S TRIUMPHS. IT’S MERELY MORE OF THE SAME SPECTACLE THAT ROWLG HAS BEEN PEDDLG FOR S, RRIED OUT WH REASONABLE PANACHE BUT GENERATG DIMISHG-RETURNS EXCEMENT. NICK SCHAGER
'" March 2015: Rowlg rponds to a fan who says they "uldn't see" Dumbledore as a gay man Years later, Rowlg ntued to reerate Dumbledore's sexual orientatn terviews and onle. When a Twter er told her they uldn't "see [Dumbledore] that way, " Rowlg replied, "Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people? The l “I was love wh you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell love” officially make non for the first time the Harry Potter anchise that the beloved Hogwarts profsor is gay and had a romantic relatnship wh the dark wizard.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?
Rowlg surprised fans by revealg Dumbledore is gay back 2007 durg a fan event after the publitn of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The revelatn that Dumbledore is gay is both not a bombshell (sce was overtly implied by the last film, followg years of public claratns by J. How Grlwald might rencile his Hler aspiratns and his homosexualy, however, is never properly addrsed—nor is Jewish Jab’s horror over this turn of events—jt as Dumbledore’s origal kship wh Grlwald (and his e) is skimmed over lt anyone pay too close attentn to s unbelievabily.
"Referenc to Dumbledore and Grlwald's gay relatnship were cut om Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Cha, makg the film six sends shorter.