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JK Rowling Confirms Hogwarts Is A Great Place For Gay Wizards

Screen Shot 2014-12-17 at 10.22.31 AMWe love hearing stories of high schools becoming safer spaces for LGBT students to openly express themselves, but what about the witches and wizards?! Inquiring minds want to know.

Well over at the world’s most famous wizarding secondary school, a boy will never be made to feel ashamed for having pictures of Cedric Diggory plastered to his potions book.

JK Rowling was recently asked on Twitter:

“Do you think there are a lot of LGBT students in modern age Hogwarts? It’s safe to assume that Hogwarts had a variety of people and I like to think it’s a safe place for LGBT students”

Here’s the tweet:

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And here’s how Rowling replied:

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