[HPforGrownups] Re: I am so happy. There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178125

dumbledore11214 blessed us with this gem On 20/10/2007 12:27:

> What Magpie said I can accept if transcript turns out to 
 > have the *unrequited* part, although
> even then DD and Grindelwad can still be gays, no?

It depends on what argument we're making. To say that a homosexual DD is 
not inconsistent with canon is probably true. To say that he WAS 
homosexual based on a couple of ambiguous passages that *could* be 
interpreted suggestively is a very weak argument at best. By that 
argument, Gandalf and Frodo must've be doing the hot-n-heavies. All that 
time G spent cloistered away up at Bag End -- you don't seriously 
believe he and Frodo were just discussing the Ring and having afternoon 
crumpets. Or if not G/F, how about Frodo and Sam? If ever there were a 
homoerotic relationship in modern literature THAT's it. After all, when 
did Frodo ever show the slightest interest in women? Or certainly you 
don't believe Turin and Beleg were just good buddies? Or Merry and 
Pippin? Come to think of it, Tolkien is just full of homoeroticism. If 
that's what one's looking for, anyway.

JKR's outting of DD tells us no more than that the DD of her imagination 
was homosexual. The DD of canon, OTOH, not so much.

--CJ