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[sistermagpie]

> > 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>

Heidi:
> 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.

Magpie:
Yeah, I saw it, but it never occurred to me that I was 'right.' I 
just thought I was totally shipping DD/GG after DH.

-m