{"id":3418,"date":"2016-05-04T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/j-k-rowling-shuts-down-dark-fan-theory-about-dumbledore\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:47:48","slug":"j-k-rowling-shuts-down-dark-fan-theory-about-dumbledore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/j-k-rowling-shuts-down-dark-fan-theory-about-dumbledore\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling shuts down dark fan theory about Dumbledore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dumbledore_horcrux_theory_rowling_response\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA0LzI5L0R1bWJsZWRvcmUuZmU5MmUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/0338390c\/647\/Dumbledore_Horcrux_theory_Rowling_response.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=J.K.+Rowling+shuts+down+dark+fan+theory+about+Dumbledore&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F04%2Fjk-rowling-shuts-down-dumbledore-horcrux-theory%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F04%2Fjk-rowling-shuts-down-dumbledore-horcrux-theory%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Whether she&#8217;s talking politics or <i>Harry Potter<\/i>, J.K. Rowling is not shy about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/31\/jk-rowling-badass-tweets\/\">sharing her opinions on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/10\/should-j-k-rowling-just-stop-point-counterpoint\/\">Do we need a new Harry Potter book? A debate that would impress Dumbledore.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Simon Zerafa tweeted the British author to ask what she thought about a Dumbledore fan theory discussed recently in a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>The theory basically argues that Fawkes the Phoenix was actually a Horcrux created by Dumbledore \u2014 not through a wish for immortality, but as a way to extricate his feelings of guilt over the death of his sister.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rowling&#8217;s response came nine minutes later. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/04\/jk-rowling-shuts-down-dumbledore-horcrux-theory\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/fan-theory\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Fan Theory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462365588' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462365588'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/_DbXHNOgpyA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Whether she&#8217;s talking politics or Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling is not shy about sharing her opinions on Twitter. SEE ALSO: Do we need a new Harry Potter book? A debate that would impress Dumbledore. On Thursday, Simon Zerafa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/j-k-rowling-shuts-down-dark-fan-theory-about-dumbledore\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[756,739,2662,16,760],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-fan-theory","tag-twitter","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}