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

[pippin_999]

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> 
> Ceridwen:

> 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.

Pippin:
Um, that is in the book. "I devote an entire chapter to the whole
Potter-Dumbledore relationship. It's been called unhealthy, even
sinister. <snip> there is no question that Dumbledore took an
unnatural interest in Potter from the word go." --DH ch 2

Of course Harry didn't read the chapter on DD and himself. But
would you really have wanted Harry to find out about DD's orientation
in that context? 

IMO, it is the same issue that comes up with Hogwarts being a 
multi-faith school, or the state of women's rights in the Potterverse:
obviously Rowling wants the imaginary underclasses of her
world to be the ones we care about, and that necessitates acceptance
for the underclasses of our world, but leads to the question, what 
does acceptance look like? And what do we really want in a fantasy 
world, acceptance, or a mirror of our particular struggle?


Pippin