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Ok so as some of you may know, since there is so much buzz about it, on Friday JK Rowling stated that Dumbledoor is in fact gay, and that the Grindlewald/Dumbledoor pairing is cannon. This prompted me to think about the pairing for the first time. (generally I really hadn't payed attention to it that much)

Warning spoilers


Thinking about the story, I like this pairing more and more. Dumbledoor was a genius, and bit strange as genius's sometimes are. In Grindlewald he found an equal, a true friend. Its not unreasonable to assume that Dumbledoor didn't have that many friends, he and Elphias Doge became friends because they were both outcasts, and while at school he gained a lot of connection because of his genius, but few friends. Grindlewald was probably the first person who he could truly connect to because they were equals, both geniuses, and I think its far to assume that for the very intelligent connecting to those less intelligent isn't as fulfilling as a relationship with an equal who was also a peer.

They fell in love, but it wasn't meant to be. JK Rowlings quote in the interview on the matter "JKR: My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extend, but he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] "If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!""

This does not suggest that the love was unrequited. But rather that it fell apart because they ended up on opposite sides. Grindlewald wanted to rule the world because it would be for the greater good, and he didn't care if he had to become a mass murderer to achieve his ends. He had a vision, his world which would be better. Dumbledoor became disillusioned with this, recognized that it was evil. How tragic that he was Grindlewald's equal, the only one who could stop him.

So he was forced to kill his former friend and true love. It must have been difficult for them both going into that dual, both knowing that they would have to try to kill the other.

Its a very tradgic story, and it also reminded of the L/Light pairing. Maybe because I'm obsessed, but maybe I'm not the only one who sees it.

L = genius who likes sweets, is a match for Light in brilliance, and tries to take down Kira which makes him sad because he suspects Light is Kira and Light is his first real friend because they are equals.
Dumbledoor = genius who likes sweets, is a match for Grindlewald in brilliance, and tries to take down the dark wizard which makes him sad because Grindlewald is his first great friend and true love because they are equals.
Light = genius who wants to rule the world to create better one, and is willing to commit mass murder to achieve his dream
Grindlewald = genius who wants to rule the world to create better one, and is willing to commit mas murder to achieve his dream

Yeah its in book seven, not really a huge spoiler to the plot, just giving away some of the back stories which are exsplained. The book will be made into a movie at some point so if you don't want to read it you'll watch the movie eventually. Although this may give you a reason to want to read it.