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Harry Potter and the Half-Hidden Subtext?

The trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince is online, and it's already got gay (and non-gay) blogs buzzing.

Ever since author J.K. Rowling announced that the beloved Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwart's, was gay, people have been wondering if references would eventually make it in to the remaining films in the series.

If the makers of the latest entry were hoping to dispel that, the new trailer certainly doesn't help.

We briefly see Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), but most of the trailer is a flashback to a younger Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), and his first meeting with the young Tom Riddle (later known as Voldemort). In an interesting casting note, Tom is played as an 11 year old by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, who is the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who plays the older Voldermort.

So where is the gay interest? Well, in one scene in the trailer, the young Tom asks Albus, "Who are you?" and he responds "I'm a lot like you, Tom ... I'm different".

Well, that X-Men-style remark is enough to get tongues wagging, though one writer is a bit confused. (I guess it is easy to get your iconic wizards mixed up, though.)

You can see the trailer after the break, and we'd like your thoughts. Is it much ado about nothing, or possibly a nod to the character's ... um, future history? Or were you too busy thinking "geez, how many more of these movies are there?"

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