I am so happy. There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178146

Pippin:
> How would it have fit into the story?
*(snip)*
> The only place it could fit is in Rita Skeeter's book, but if the
> WW is that happy place where there's nothing scandalous about a
> monogamous relationship between consenting adults, then she'd
> have had nothing to write about. She certainly wouldn't have wanted 
to
> suggest that Dumbledore had fallen in love -- it would have made
> him far too human and sympathetic.

Ceridwen:
It could fit into Rita Skeeter's book or excerpts in the paper, or it 
could have been blabbed by a bigmouth at the Weasley wedding, someone 
like Auntie Muriel.  She seems to have remembered Ariana's funeral 
and the fight between Albus and Aberforth; she could have blurted out 
something about the way he'd just adored that awful nephew of 
Bathilda's.  If I recall right, Auntie Muriel is presented as being a 
bit younger than the Dumbledores, but she obviously had her sources.  
Her mother was probably as big a busybody as she was.

We don't know what the WW thinks of relationships outside of 
marriage.  If Ron carrying on to Ginny about snogging Dean in HBP, or 
the Daily Prophet making a big deal out of Hermione's supposed 
attachments to the two champions in GoF are anything to go on, we can 
guess, and it doesn't seem like the WW is nearly as progressive as 
fandom would like to think.  I would put a gay relationship outside 
of marriage, given what I see in the books.  DD and GG, specifically, 
obviously weren't married.

That would be another point for someone, Rita Skeeter, Auntie Muriel, 
anyone, to bring up: the Headmaster of the school having had an 
illicit relationship - is he the sort of person we want teaching our 
children?  What might he be encouraging up there?  And the time he 
spends alone with Harry Potter... *shocked face*  That could have 
drummed up some sympathy for DD when he was otherwise not 
sympathetic.  Something like this could even have been thrown into 
the OotP storyline of the Ministry trashing both Harry and DD.

There are ways it could have been done, or ways to make the 
suggestions more obvious.  I don't think interviews are canon.  I 
wouldn't put the encyclopedia, if it ever happens, into the 
septology.  If students study the phenomenon a hundred years from 
now, the only place you would find Rowling's comments would be in 
footnotes and prefaces, or in annotated cites in the back of the 
books.  Your mileage may vary.

Ceridwen.