![]() ![]() But I can’t move onĪnd yet … Despite myself, I’m morbidly curious to see how Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, and Grindelwald, played by Mads Mikkelsen, will interact. The upcoming film will likely offer the same old tired trope for queer representation, where queer characters are either condemned, heading for tragedy or killed off. This retrospective morsel of LGBTQIA+ representation was praised by fans, but it was also immediately understood that Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s love was doomed.Īnd so we can look forward to a villain (Grindelwald) and arch-enemy (Dumbledore), whose affection for each other – to put it mildly – won’t be celebrated. This was only ‘revealed’ after the last Harry Potter book was published. It features the only two characters identified by the author as gay: Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. ![]() Frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>įantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will be something of a test case for this. ![]()
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