A Conversation between J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe （英语字幕）_全球热议

Daniel Radcliffe:I was gonna ask about, I do felt I have, some duty of a personal level as well because I've always have my own suspicions about it. Dumbledore being gay.

J.K.Rowling:(Chukle) I thought you're going to ask something completely (different). Get on.

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Daniel Radcliffe:Dumbledore being gay?

J.K.Rowling:Yeah.

Daniel Radcliffe:More's that something it was just turning out (maybe) for the American press to get them stirred up a bit. 

J.K.Rowling:But they did.

Daniel Radcliffe:(Repeat) But they did, which makes it very funny (maybe).

J.K.Rowling:I found people's reactions' that really interesting and I'll tell you why. 

By the time, I said that I've been working on these characters for seventeen years. Now, not many writers had ever been with the same set of characters for that long. So I, I feel I can sort of speak for all of us who have, to say it becomes very intense experience and inevitably you would gonna know things about characters. And I'm, characters in a plural. That a lot, in some case it will be relevant. And you will think: Oh yeah yeah this is the moment of that's become relevant. 

And I will say that and show that. For example, Professor Mcgonagall, I had a whole history worked out for her. I think I thought  that some point would be relevant that she had a love with a muggle, and she had an arduous past, and she ended up being a celibate elderly teacher. Never became relevant never happened. 

And as time went on and I got to know Dumbledore, this is before the publication of '(Harry potter and) the Philosopher Stone'. So bear in mind that at this point I've been with it for seven years. I knew he was gay, I just knew he was gay.

Daniel Radcliffe:Okay.

J.K.Rowling:And to me it was not a big deal. This is a very old man who has a very terrible job to do. And he's gay is not really relevant, (but) very rellevant to him as a character because I always saw him as a lonely character. And I think that there's in fact to hint to it in seven (means the 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows), because the relationship he has with Grindelwald. He felt very hard with this boy, all he trusting of this good-looking young man when he shows up. Don't you think it was perfect that Dumbledore who is always the great champion of love, 'Harry, love will save us.' (But) His one great experience of love was utterly tragic.

Daniel Radcliffe:(answer) Yeah.

J.K.Rowling:He was with someone dangerous and demonic.

Daniel Radcliffe:(sigh) Yeah.

J.K.Rowling:And so, you know (that man) created absolute havoc in the world and created havoc for him. That was my idea of Dumbledore's tragic backstory.

Now, I like leaving it open so that perhaps a more worldly reader would see that there was, that they may have been in that relationship. And perhaps a nine-year old would think he made a great friend and trusted him. 

Daniel Radcliffe:(answer) Yeah, exactly, for all above.

J.K.Rowling:But in the context of how I was writing about him, another word, he's giving up clearly. He's John the baptist to Harry's Christ. He's the nearly ran man, the man who nearly could have had the hollows. But he was too power-hungry, that was what was interesting to me about Dumbledore.

So he's used in the book, clearly he's the found of all worldly wisdom(maybe). And he teaches Harry what he need to teach Harry because he recognises that Harry is going to be, he is going to be the one of Galahad or Lancelot or whatever you like. He's the more flawed one, he's the nearly ran. That to me was what was interesting about Dumbledore.

Do you remember in the first draft of the script for '(Harry Potter and) the Half Blood Prince'?

Daniel Radcliffe:(thinking, then answer) Right.

J.K.Rowling:When Harry's at the station and Dumbledore comes to meet him at the station...

Daniel Radcliffe:(cried) Oh yes!

J.K.Rowling:And in the early draft of that script, Dumbledore said to Harry, he said,'I remember a young woman with eyes of flashing, whatever, raven head.' And I read this, and I scribble on my copy of the script, 'Steve, Dumbledore is gay.' (And) Shove it off the table. And Steve, 'Oh!' So that line, that's why that line didn't make the film.

Daniel Radcliffe:Okay.