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[pippin_999]

> Mike again:
> I guess my point is, the subtext may give enough of a hint for some 
> to have speculated. Most, I suspect, would have come to the same 
> conclusion that Magpie admits to, 'It must be me'. And that is 
> perfectly logical to me because the hints, subtext, or clues were 
> insufficient to give anyone a solid feeling that their intuition on 
> this was correct. 
> 
> So I still think that Dumbledore wasn't written as gay.


Pippin:
If JKR had answered the question by saying that Dumbledore had
outlived two wives, would people be saying he hadn't been written as
a double widower? That she should have put double widowers in canon
so we'd know what to expect?   

Pippin