[HPFGU-OTChatter] Sex! Love! Writing!

[Heidi Tandy]

> Mike:
> <SNIP> Did anyone ever
> guess that DD was written as gay before JKR's statement/answer? I
> know of nobody that can claim to have ventured that guess. <BIG SNIP>


Oh yes, lots! Apart from the fact that there's a large and vibrant 
community of slash writers, there are a number of people who aren't 
slashers who wondered and posited this.

Two days after DH came out, for example, a friend of mine who's not in 
fandom but who reads my livejournal asked me whether there were 
Dumbledore/Grindlewald fics yet and I gave him links to two,
It's subtextual but it's there and many - but not all - people saw it. 
It's similar to anything else that's subtextual in the series - some 
people see Umbridge as a commentary on British government, or on British 
education in the abstract while others see a representation of a very 
mean person. Seeing the subtext in the Dumbledore/Grindlewald 
relationship as written in the book is similar, IMO.

- heidi