David Yates seems to understand the book Dumbledore. Ya think he might want to share that with Gambon??

I agree with Emma it just fits! :D

I was sort of right there with Dan at first, “She’s just winding them up”. But then, it was like, okay, this is real, alright, let’s move on.

Yates’ statements were fantastic. I just like him more and more all the time. Won’t say this completely until I see the 6th film, but almost hope he sticks around to finish off the series.

Yeah, David Yates does seem to understand the books, but they will never have enough canon to satisfy me. He also started on the fifth film when there was already a strong tradition of not being that canon, especially with characterization.

Daniel Radcliffe kind of annoyed me. I hate how, even he, thinks that homosexuality is just a joke. Emma Watson was great though. And, despite my comments above, Yates really said wonderful things about Dumbledore and those are adjectives that true HP fans would have used as well.

I love David Yates more every time he speaks.

David Yates new about this for “a while”? Well that’s news to me!

I’m really happy to know that David Yates actually understands these books, but was unimpressed with Dan’s statement. I think Emma was right on, and although I take issue with these movies in general, I’m glad that atleast one of the trio is an actual Harry Potter fan.

GO YATES!!! He toatally has it right. Couldn’t have said it better.

@Mrs. DM-P-Yates doesn’t seem the type to get into an actor’s face, especially a venerable one like Gambon. He’s soft-spoken and probably lets the older actors do their jobs.

I said what I had to say on the hosexuality of Dumbledore.

But!

Just for the sake of argument, it could have been totally platonic. Very, very, intelligent people, occasionally, are totaly asexual. They just do not have de hormones for that. They live in another world. Therefore, Dumbledore could have had a perfectly platonic relation of a homosexual nature, because the object of his love was extremely smart, as smart as he was, and also a man. Big deal!

What if that exceptionally inteligent person had been a woman, would not Dumbledore have been smitten by her brains as he has been with the other fellow? I like to think so. It was the meeting of the minds that provoked love and admiration, not his body.

Love can take many forms. JK has been very silent on the whole matter, so far. Therefore, we are free to speculate all we want. I go for platonicity my self.

I disagree with your arguments on so many levels, Serge, but as you say, to each his own.

(I go for the mansex option, myself. Because, you know, why not? It happens. And that is usually included in the definition of “gay”)

michael gambon doesn’t read the books and he’s only seen part of one of the 3 films he’s done. So I’m sure someone HAS to tell him something about the character he plays. Either David Yates or JKR or someone gives him some backstory or something to work with. But whatever, I like the way he plays Dumbledore. The man is a talented actor. But I agree with Dan’s response, I have no idea what Rupert said, and Emma’s answer completely sums up my feelings about the whole thing. It does just fits. If you go back and read some of the stuff Dumbledore has said to Harry like in book 6 when he told Harry that when he makes mistakes they tend to be big ones, he was totally talking about Grindelwald there and I know that now. It just fits.

Emma is right, it does fit. I look back now and it seems so obvious, but we never noticed because it just wasn’t important.

Serge: Except the fact that she said he was gay. Not bisexual. Not asexual. Not “one homosexual fling in which he was experimenting.” Gay- his whole life. Not platonically in love. Romantically. If Grindewald were a woman he would not have fallen in love with him. Comments like yours make me hope that in JKR’s head-canon, Gellert and Albus at many points _{got it on.}

Is it just me or did they cut off right as Rupert was about to say something else? Something tells me that sometimes they just stick the poor kid in interviews because they feel obligated to.

David Yates is love. I don’t like how he hacked up OotP but he has a good grasp on the characters, and I hope his grasp on the characters overrides Kloves lack thereof.

is it just me or is anyone else getting really tired of hearing about all the dumbledore is gay crap… i dont care that he is gay but enough is enough… i have to listen to all the rude jokes made by the guys at my school and i’m really tired of coming home only to have more on the same subject when i go to find out RELEVENT HP news. Sorry if I have offended anyone. It’s not that I mind that Dumbledore is gay it’s the fact everyone is making such a big deal over it!

-HPfreak