Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake

[colebiancardi]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > Well, I'm taking a different approach too. One thing people 
> > keep forgetting is that Dumbledore is well over 100 years old,
> > I think he is past the raging hormones and compelling sexual
> > urges stage of life.
> 
> In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/34190
> Mike wrote: 
> Dumbledore wasn't written as gay, he wasn't written as straight, as 
> Tonks_Op has said many times DD was written as asexual - he had no 
> sexual orientation in canon.
> 
> 
colebiancardi:

well, then, Snape was also written as asexual - he also had no sexual
orientation in canon until DH.  Yet, due to his Love Of Lily, he
turned out to be straight!!  

OMG.  I do wish JKR would have prepared me better for that bombshell.
 I don't know why she didn't write Snape's straightness prior to DH.