Dumbledore is gay! Can you believe that!

I do not exactly know whether J K Rowling was jesting this time,but she has apparently announced in a public reading that Dumbledore was gay.Shaking your head?Read on.On friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall,she was asked by a Potter fan whether the late Hogwarts Headmaster finds any "true love".I must say the fan must have been in for a (un)pleasant surprise when she had promptly replied that Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was homosexual.

"Dumbledore is gay," the Harry Potter author said to gasps and applause,after reading briefly from the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at Carnegie Hall.

She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."

Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Rowling has been known for her jests,satirical remarks and occasional stabs at humour.I wonder what this is? Satire or the truth?