10 Harry Potter Fan Theories Confirmed By JK Rowling

Dumbledore with the good robes meets Grindelwald with the good hair, and the rest is pure romantic history. Ok there were a few laughs, a few bumps, and attempted genocide along the way, but how do we judge how people express their love, eh? The theory of course is that Dumbledore and Grindlewald were more than just close friends as teenagers.

When the Deathly Hallows was released, it was a little easy to see the subtext of their relationship, but it wasn't out and out stated in the book. The fact that Rowling confirmed that yes, they were lovers, delighted some readers while leaving others shocked.

Rowling joked that she'd always made it obvious that Dumbledore was gay in the novels, but this wasn't really the case. She had to give the scriptwriter for the Half-Blood Prince a note to remove a line of him fondly remembering a girl from his past.

Once this was chopped, the movies went a little further to explicitly showing us their attraction, particularly in The Crimes of Grindlewald. Still, this could have gone a little further. In the Deathly Hallows films, there is next to no discussion about the two men. There was a lot to get through in Harry's story, but Dumbledore's entire story was pushed into a couple of scenes of exposition from Auntie Muriel and Aberforth.