Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 18

"Five years later, Dumbledore finally succumbed to the Wizarding world's pleas to end Grindelwald's vicious rampage in Europe." I've just re-read the relevant text in the novel, and looked up dates both on this site and another Potter resource site, and this is misleading. It makes it sound as if Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald five years after the summer they spent as friends/the summer of Ariana's death. Actually, the two events are about 46 years apart (1899 and 1945). Apparently the five years referred to are from 1940 to 1945, during which time Gridelwald was terrorizing Europe and Dumbledore delayed confronting him. Perhaps a better wording would be "Decades later, when Grindelwald was rampaging through Europe, Dumbledore delayed five years before succumbing to the Wizarding world's pleas to defeat him." Actually that proposed revision is lousy, which is why I'm not making it, but you get the point. 75.141.158.178 (discuss) 00:02, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Dumbledore and Grindelwald: More than friends?
J.K. Rowling has stated in an interview that not only is Dumbledore gay, but that Dumbledore may have had strong romantic feelings for Grindelwald which was the reason that he was blinded to Grindelwald's dark and evil plans, etc. Just wondering if this should be mentioned on this page. RunningBlind (discuss • contribs) 00:31, 17 December 2011 (UTC)