Rowling's agent declined to comment on the response. 'You had your chance to make Dumbledore/Grindelwald gay when you, you know, wrote the books/made the movies,' tweeted - one of many fans who criticised the move.
More than a decade on, she said there had been a 'sexual dimension' to their relationship, leading to accusations on social media that she was trying to 'score brownie points' with the LGBT+ community. In 2007 Rowling outed Albus Dumbledore, the head of Hogwarts school in the best-selling books, saying he had fallen in love with Gellert Grindelwald - a fellow wizard. Rowling's revelation that two 'Harry Potter' characters were in a gay relationship has sparked an angry backlash, with some fans accusing her of changing her books to keep up with social trends. LONDON, March 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - J.K. The Harry Potter books author has been accused of retroactively trying to insert diversity into a series dominated by white heterosexual characters
