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ALSO literally every “”“gay”“” thing they put in the trailers as pretty obvious bait was no-homoed?? Idk if you noticed but pretty much every single second of Dumbledore’s screentime was used in the trailers, as was every “"gay”“ scene, EXCEPT for the ones that no-homoed them.

Hand holding? Oh, it’s the blood pact!

“I can’t move against Grindelwald” is it because he still loves him? no lol they literally made a blood pact and swore never to fight!

“oh we were closer than brothers” fuck you it’s the blood pact!

and yea obviously if you already know Albus was in love with Gellert you can read these romantically but the casual viewer won’t, which is EXACTLY the goal – Rowling took no risks here, the gay Albus fans will watch it because they want to see his sexuality represented and the homophobes will go watch it because any and every even subtly gay thing was explained.

ps: except for Grindelwald being uncomfortably homoerotic with both his black haired follower and Credence, but that’s a classic example of queer coding a villain which is a homophobic trope so no it super doesn’t count

pps mad props to Jude Law who quite literally saved the movie despite appearing for no more than 4 minutes

ppps yeah y’all could say “but he saw Grindelwald in the mirror!1!1!1111!1” my sister, who’s been a fan of Harry Potter since the beginning, watched the trailer and was like “no obviously that’s not a romantic thing they understand each other like no-one else understands them so Albus longs for the companionship of someone who’s essentially a brother to him” so no that means absolutely nothing to homophobic people Rowling played it as safe as possible and the whole thing ended up being a massive queerbait (as predicted)