Months ago , grotesque animal : The Crimes of Grindelwald director David Yates courted controversy among some Harry Potter fans by say that the motion picture — despite feature a youthful Dumbledore hand-to-hand struggle with confronting his now - villainous dear interest — would not address author J.K. Rowling ’s post - book reveal that Dumbledore is festal . Now he ’s walk that back , ever so slightly .
speak toEntertainment Weeklyback in January , Yates said the Fantastic Beasts postdate up , whichfeatures Jude Lawas the young Dumbledore , would “ not explicitly ” acknowledge the character ’s sex . rather , it would be left up to sports fan — who already knew ofRowling ’s 2007 revelationthat Dumbledore was in love with Fantastic Beast 2 ’s titular baddie , Gellert Grindelwald — to take subtext into account rather than have the movie itself actually portray it in some way . It is , patently , still amonstrouslydifficultthing for a Hollywood genre movie to do in 2018 — despite actuallynot being that hard at all , unless someone had happened to apparate your spinal column out of your body just before you had to make a decisiveness about making LGBTQ subtext genuine school text . But anyway !
In that earlier consultation , I did n’t say Dumbledore ’s not brave . He is .
This part of this huge story that Jo is creating does n’t focus on his sex , but we ’re not airbrush or conceal it … the narration [ of the romanticist relationship ] is n’t there in this particular flick but it ’s unmortgaged in what you see … that he is gay . A couple of picture we shot are very sensual moments of him and the young Grindelwald .
pay that Jude Lawpreviously mentionedthat Dumbledore and the sometime Grindelwald ( play by Johnny Depp in the moving-picture show , another repeatedsourceofcontroversy ) do n’t apportion any view together in Crimes of Grindelwald , it seems the conniption Yates is referring to are the ones glimpse in themostrecenttrailers for the movie . They see Dumbledore yearningly gaze into the Mirror of Erised — a magical twist in the Potter universe that fans of the Holy Writ ( and fans of reading words backwards ) will bang lets exploiter see visual sense of their heart ’s rich desire — only to be shown a visions of Grindelwald , both as he is in the clock time of the picture and as a new Isle of Man :
So , it is at the very least a tiny step in the right direction , if not quite an actual full step . Yates ’ latest commentary still dance around the substantial reservoir of alarm — as sensual as mirror - touching might be , it ’s still not an actual explicit acknowledgment that Dumbledore is gay .
If the film never really state that Dumbledore is gay ( and no , we ’re not talking about him shouting “ I’M GAY ! ” to kick off a Quidditch match ) , and alternatively leaves it to these tantrum to be interpreted by fans , then it ’s purposely leave behind in limbo . Enough ocular hinting so that lover can see the pointed nod of what it signify that Dumbledore sees his former crunch in the mirror of desire , but still undefined enough that viewers who are n’t familiar with Potter traditional knowledge or Rowling ’s outside - the - novel commentary are left none the wiser — perhaps assuming that his “ desire ” is simply to see Grindelwald return to a metre when he was n’t a wizard bigot . fan hoping for LGBTQ representation on the swelled screen get more vauge subtext to debate , while viewers who might be concerned to chance upon that brave the great unwashed live in a Earth of sorcerous monsters and wizarding schools do n’t have to worry because a moving-picture show mentioned the G - word . Everyone wins ! Well , except for genuine agency , that is , and the masses it matters the public to .
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