First everyone was mad that Johnny Depp was in Fantastic Beasts and will also be in Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, due to the (alleged) Crimes Of Johnny Depp.
Allegations of physical violence were made by his ex-wife Amber Heard and confirmed, in a roundabout way, in a joint statement released by the couple. But JK Rowling and Warner Brothers were “happy” to keep him on.
Then people were also mad that Young Dumbledore – played by Jude Law, who is well and truly into his Hot Dad / Hot Pope phase – would not be “explicitly gay” in the new sequel.
Albus Dumbledore appreciation post #FantasticBeasts pic.twitter.com/rGDwbXFWxY
— Arthur? (@sinnamon_auror) March 13, 2018
Rowling said way back in 2007, after the release of the final book in the Harry Potter series, that Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was totally gay and also in love with Grindelwald, the evil wizard he knew as a young man and defeated in 1945. She didn’t put it in the books or anything, but it’s totally true because she says so.
But there will be no, repeat NO gayness in FB2:CoG.
But maybe we need to chill out on the outrage, given that Grindelwald looks like an unholy mix of Sirius Black with a home bleach job and a morgue janitor who gets arrested for keeping teenage girls locked in a scorpion-infested basement.
um ok sorry but i’m GLAD they aren’t making dumbledore openly queer because in WHAT fucking world is that dumbledaddy in love with this smegma-riddled sea monster #FantasticBeasts pic.twitter.com/qpj7SWqViO
— mat whitehead (@matwhi) March 13, 2018
Gay Dumbledore deserves better, and so do we.
Fingers crossed that in the next film we all get, say, Matthew Goode as a saucy new charms professor, whom Albus can exchange significant glances with over leather-bound (ahem) books in the Restricted Section.
I’M JUST SAYING.