The Harry Potter fandom has turned on Fantastic Beasts writer J.K. Rowling, however temporarily, after her latest comments on the sexual relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald. It doesn’t seem to be a torches-and-pitchforks kind of backlash, more of an eyeroll “here she goes again” kind of frustration from fans tired of the author adding extra details on characters outside of the books and movies.
The author recently said that Albus Dumbledore and the Fantastic Beasts villain Gellert Grindelwald had a “passionate” love affair. Even though there is no explicit mention of Dumbledore’s sexuality in any of the books or films released so far, Rowling reiterated recently that both Dumbledore and Grindelwald had an “incredibly intense” relationship in their youth.
“It was passionate, and it was a love relationship,” the author said. “But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows really what the other person is feeling. You can’t know, you can believe you know.”
Fantastic Beasts director David Yates added, “This is a story about two men who loved each other, and ultimately have to fight each other. It’s a story for the 21st century.”
However, this time, the reaction to this is a Twitter-wide mockery of Rowling’s latest effort to be gay-inclusive.
I'm sick of Rowling and her half-assed inclusivity. It doesn't count if she's telling us after the fact. That's not being an ally. That's trying to get brownie points. She loses nothing this way. Put it in the text or don't talk about it all. Same thing with Hermione's race.
— ? Lucky Femme | Not a woman ? (@Femme_Queer) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: Assuming an alias, Dumbledore starred in an erotic film in his late twenties titled: “Albus Dumblewhore’s 1000 Load Weekend: No wizard has ever taken this much spunk”
— Harry Clayton-Wright (@HClaytonWright) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore’s patronus is the Grindr logo
— carter (@carterhambley) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore ate the peach from Call Me By Your Name
— jon (@prasejeebus) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: You know what else was nine and three quarters?
— Genki (@Genki_Rocket) March 17, 2019
anybody:
jk rowling: the sorting hat eats ass https://t.co/LYqNr238tI
— shen the bird (@Shen_the_Bird) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: Dobby can deepthroat a Nimbus 2000— David Hughes (@david8hughes) March 17, 2019
Deadass nobody:
JK Rowling: Luna Lovegood was a bisexual voyeur who was pro-choice and a quarter Chinese. Wingardium Leviosa was Hermione’s safe word. Lucius Malfoy was a cuckold. It was never said but it was understood.— marquita (@marquitasade) March 17, 2019
No one:
JK Rowling *chasing a reporter down the street*: “Hagrid was a furry, you know! I didn’t mention it in the books, but it was understood. Representation!!” https://t.co/zVxnr1oAFx
— A West (@ayyy_west) March 17, 2019
no one:
jk rowling: professor quirrell was into pegging.
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: Gilderoy Lockhart co-owns the gay sauna Asskaban in Knockturn Alley which holds a weekly fisting night called Rectumsempra.
— Harry Clayton-Wright (@HClaytonWright) March 18, 2019
nobody:
jk rowling: lol Dumbledore & Grindewald were totally doin the sex
people: oh ok will you put it in a book or movie
jk rowling: no
people: ugh
nobody:
nobody:
nobody:
jk rowling: SO MUCH SEX THEY WERE DOIN SO MUCH SEX I SWEAR— ?Elle ? Gato? (@ellle_em) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: It’s a well known fact in the wizarding world that the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, was not just gay but a size queen with a capacious hole and would use the “engorgio” spell on all of his lovers regardless of their natural form.
— Harry Clayton-Wright (@HClaytonWright) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
JK Rowling: The Sorting Hat threw the first rock at Stonewall.
— A? (@husseybyname) March 17, 2019
Nobody:
J.K. Rowling: Hogwarts was super diverse, exceptionally gay, extremely homoerotic, and there were a ton of black and jewish kids too, I just didn't write about any of them, but they were there, trust me.
Somebody: Ma'am this is a Wendy's
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) March 17, 2019
U forgot that Voldemort was trans species. Human to snake. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/Arntt785Ru
— Anthony Osbon (@AnthonyOsbon) March 18, 2019
Can someone tell JK to show, and not tell.
I died at “Dobby can deepthroat a Nimbus 2000”
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Why?
Why are world people just savage like this?
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Honey puh-leez, those ghoulish wide open mouths weren’t just made for “sucking” life but also for Mandingo parties, BBCs and deepthroating. I wonder if down there’s for super fisting too. ???
Grindr logo kwa??? ?? That shii could scare the life outta dementors