LONDON -- J.K. Rowling doesn't tweet a lot, but when she does, she makes it count.
Harry Potter fan Ana Kovovic tweeted to the author about Hogwarts' headmaster Albus Dumbledore, saying that she couldn't see him as gay man.
Nicely done, @jk_rowling... pic.twitter.com/7tc2KQCOvl
— Robert Perry (Pez) (@pez_sez) March 24, 2015
The author's sharp response on Tuesday has since been retweeted thousands of times. Kovovic deleted her original tweets, but according to several sources, she responded: "Amazing answer ... yes you are absolutely right. Such an inspiration."
In 2007, Rowling said that Dumbledore was gay when she revealed he had lost his moral compass after falling in love with Gellert Grindelwald as a young man.
“I had always seen Dumbledore as gay, but in a sense that’s not a big deal. The book wasn’t about Dumbledore being gay. It was just that from the outset obviously I knew he had this big, hidden secret," she said in a 2008 interview with The Student.
"The issue is love. It’s not about sex. So that’s what I knew about Dumbledore. And it’s relevant only in so much as he fell in love and was made an utter fool of by love. He lost his moral compass completely when he fell in love and I think subsequently became very mistrusting of his own judgment in those matters so became quite asexual. He led a celibate and bookish life.”
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