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David Thewlis, who portrays werewolf Rem Lup the Harry Potter films, has admted he thought his character was gay whilst filmg Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In fact, the film's director Alfonso Cuaron actually told David (whout JK Rowlg's knowledge or permissn) that Rem Lup was a gay man. As such, David…

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HARRY POTTER AND THE SECRET GAY LOVE STORY

While Dumbledore and Grdlewald were gay, this wasn’t actually revealed the books themselv. While terpretatns fandom vary, many people thk that Siri would make sense as a gay character. Many people have poted out that there is a lot of subtext, a mon way to ht at gay relatnships whout makg them non, between their relatnship.

The “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” stage play is load wh homoerotic tensn between “bt iends” Alb and Srpi. This was pecially te if you were queer—or, not to put too fe a pot on , if you were me—and had picked up on the secret gay love story that existed between the l of Rowlg’s text. Queer kids, however, were directly affected by the suggtn of a gay love story happeng the background of Harry’s life—and so we noticed .

The straight romance was explic the text; the gay one was not and never would be.

REM LUP ACTOR THOUGHT HIS CHARACTER WAS “GAY”

In 2007, after the seri was officially plete, she announced that Dumbledore, of all characters, was actually gay the whole time; jt never me up the books. Moviefone is reportg that David Thewlis claimed he played Lup as gay the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie acrdance wh directn om the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón. Thewlis revealed that director Alfonso Cuarón gave him a b of advice which was to play the character as a ‘gay junkie.

Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and seems to be an anecdote that Thewlis lik to reveal here and there. (Although marryg a shaphifter don’t exactly preclu homosexualy or bisexualy on the part of the character, Rowlg also explicly rmed the actor later that she didn’t create Lup wh a queer sexualy md.

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