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While author J.K. Rowling revealed Albus Dumbledore was gay in 2007, none of the films or books addressed the headmaster of Hogwart's sexuality directly. According to Rowling, Dumbledore fell in love with fellow wizard Grindlewald, who later becomes his nemesis. But now the director of the upcoming "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: Crimes Of Grindelwald" says the topic will be part of the storyline. David Yates previously said the wizard wouldn't be "explicitly gay" in the plot, he has now clarified his comments, instead teasing "sensual moments of him and the young Grindelwald."In an interview with Empire magazine, Yates insisted that his previous controversial remarks were taken out of context, explaining, "In that earlier interview, I didn’t say Dumbledore’s not gay. He is. This part of this huge narrative that Jo (Rowling) is creating doesn’t focus on his sexuality, but we’re not airbrushing or hiding it."Yates added that, "a couple of scenes we shot are very sensual moments" between young Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, and young Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp."The story (of their romance) isn’t there in this particular movie but it’s clear in what you see … that he is gay. ('The Crimes of Grindelwald') is about other things, fundamentally, but the story of Grindelwald and Dumbledore, going forward, that is the story."Rowling told "Harry Potter" fans that Dumbledore was gay during a reading of her book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." She said: "I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, 'I knew a girl once, whose hair...' I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, 'Dumbledore's gay!'"