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“Keep Them Guessing”, Says Harry Potter Star Daniel Radcliff

As everyone knows by now, Hogwarts Head Master and Wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay. Right now, there is a lot of speculation about the young actor who plays his student Harry Potter in the wildly successful movie series based upon the books. Daniel Radcliff, responding to questions concerning his sexuality, stated that it is “good to keep them guessing.” According to Radcliff “I don’t go on any blogs or chats or anything, but my friends are demons for them, and apparently someone said: ‘Daniel Radcliffe is gay. He’s got a gay face!’ I really don’t know what a gay face is!” This statement came at a time when promotion for the sixth movie Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince was ramping into full gear ahead of its premier in the United States. Speaking to The London Paper of J.K. Rowling’s decision to finally out Dumbledore, Radcliff stated “I think it’s wonderful that Dumbledore was outed as gay … Half of me thinks Rowling just did that to see if she could p*ss off the right-wing, but I’m not sure how true that is. I think she had it planned, I think she always knew he was gay.”

Rowling took some heavy flack for the decision to publicly announce that Albus Dumbledore was gay, and that he had fallen in love with a dark wizard long before the events set forth in the series. Dumbledore has become something of an icon within the LGBT rights movement. The reader learns of Dumbledore’s love of Gellert Grindelwald in the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, after the death of the character in the sixth.

For his part, Daniel Radcliff recently appeared on stage in the show Equus. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is currently in theaters, and the seventh book will be filmed as two separate movies.

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