jamie ann

Yes. Your eyes are not mistaken. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore has been outed by none other than Jo herself at a reading at Carnegie Hall. Rowling revealed that she always thought of Dumbledore as gay.

The question was: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

JKR: My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair… [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!” [laughter] “If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!”

The comments are already reeling about this new tidbit of info. If people are going to starting hating on this fact now, when they loved Dumbledore all this time, well that’s absolutely ridiculous. He is a great character with a lot of depth and secrets, and this was just one of the many. I can’t believe people are getting so worked up about it. I personally love it. I always thought Dumbledore was quite fabulous!

Other highlights from the Q&A: Neville finding love, Molly vs Bellatrix and so much more. You can read all about it at The Leaky Cauldron.

Last year around Christmas time, I was putting together a box of loveliness for a friend who lives on the east coast. I was scouring the internet for cute, fun things I would want myself to give this person. I can’t even remember where I found Pink Loves Brown but I’m glad I did. I have yet to buy some items for myself but I plan on it eventually, probably some book plates for my ever growing library. Pink Loves Brown is also Chicago girl!

 

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So today I was thinking about Halloween and how I maybe, possibly, could be, but probably won’t, dress up this year. First thing that came to mind, Harry Potter. No, not be The Boy Who Lived, but a Harry Potter themed costume. Since I am oh so intelligent, I like to think I would be Ravenclaw. I go about my business and type “Ravenclaw costume” or something of that sort into trusty Google and see what comes up. I’m looking and looking and finally come across this……

Gryffindor is obviously the slutty house since this comes in no other colors but that’s besides the point. Is Harry Potter not even safe from Halloween whorey-ness?

Walking around in lingerie that is black and yellow, does not make you a bumblebee. Adding wings to your Victoria Secret skivvys does not make you Gisele, or even an angel. A sexy border control officer? A hot taxi driver? Please spare everyone.

Seriously.

I’m currently loving this song. It’s kind of my favorite in the whole world at the moment. Mark Ronson could probably cover anything and make it amazing. He’s done a Smith’s cover and even Toxic by everyone’s favorite trainwreck, Britney Spears.

Watch this if you know what’s good for you.

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So I am kind of obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy. Seriously. It’s bad.

I have all three seasons on DVD. If there is nothing on, without even blinking an eye, I automatically reach for one season and pop it in my DVD player. I could literally watch Grey’s Anatomy all day. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen seasons one and two.

Can I just say how much Izzy and George piss me off? Dude. Denny died like 5 minutes ago and she’s all OMG I’M SO IN LOVE WITH GEORGE. I’M A HOMEWRECKER.

Seriously?

Via Fussy.

Living here in the “Windy City”, I barely get a break between seasons. Last week it was almost 90 and today it’s probably 60ish degrees. What happened to fall?! By Halloween, I will probably have snow!

Since it will get cold soon, I had to buy a winter coat. I found the perfect one of Bluefly. It’s a Kenneth Cole Reaction wool coat. I lovelovelove the funnel neck.

I’m ready for winter! How about you?

This weekend I went to see one of the films in the Chicago Film Festival. I caught the third showing of Lars and the Real Girl. It was a sold out showing probably because it was a weekend showing but the film was great! I think it opens nationwide this weekend so I definitely think everyone should go see it. Ryan Gosling is fastly becoming one of my favorite actors, if you have seen Half Nelson, you might agree!

Anyway, Lars and the Real Girl is about a lonely young man who deals with his own issues in a unconventional kind of way. Probably not too hard to figure out based on the title, but go check it out!