Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ?Is? and ?Gay?

[Jen Reese]

montims:
> ... I LIKE being told backstory - I want to hear all of it, about 
> every character.  The protagonists exist in my imagination as far
> as they have been portrayed and no further, so every revelation
> causes me to adjust my understanding a little, but for me that's a
> good thing.  I had no investment in DD being gay or straight or 
> unicorn lover...  Now it has been clarified, I can see him as gay.
>  Minor characters might be revealed to be redheads, Scottish, 
> Chartered Accountants in the muggle world, triple orphans, 
> whatever.  If JKR says that's their backstory, I will take it on 
> board.  If she says Lily ate cornflakes every day of her life, ok
> then.  To me, they ARE JKR's characters, and always will be - I get
> to enjoy the stories she puts out, and I would be happy if bit by
> bit she released the whole of her notes...

Jen: No way, Lily ate eggs every morning. ;) I'm with you on wanting 
to hear backstory.  Anything that evolved about characters or plot 
during JKR's creative process is interesting to me.  Her seeing a 
character a certain way, knowing he/she acts for certain reasons, 
well, I'm not a writer but it seems like all that stuff would go into 
the story on one level or another even if not explicitly.  

Predictions about the furture of the characters, eh, JKR's 
speculating like the rest of us.  In my extended Potterverse, Luna 
and Dean got together, Neville married someone never mentioned, and 
Ron was a stay-at-home dad while Hermione earned the living. 

Jen, wondering if she needs to branch out into fanfic next...