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[julie]

>
> 
> > 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
>

Julie:
This would be very suspicious, very suspicious indeed! Men
do not usually outlive women, and for a man to outlive *two*
wives...this would seem to imply that Dumbledore might well be
a wife-killer! Not quite as bad to some as being gay perhaps,
but still, could we allow our children to read these books with
Dumbledore's unlikely survival suddenly prompting questions 
we parents don't want to answer? And who wouldn't be angry 
with JKR for dumping this on us post-canon without so much as
a line in the books about those dead wives (perhaps one of 
those single tears Dumbledore is so good at shedding sliding
down his cheek as he laments his sadly departed loves...)?

Julie, unsuccessful in fending off a ferocious attack of 
sarcasm today