Things not overtly mentioned in canon. (was: I am so happy.)

[Valerie Frankel]

No: HPFGUIDX 178149

I think all the extra info that never made it into the books is 
interesting but a little perplexing-- there's the books, which we love, 
and there are these random facts with so little proof or linkage in the 
text that they feel like fanfic. As far as Dumbledore's closet, I did 
find it interesting back when I was reading that while he "fathers" 
Harry, and even Snape and James and Draco a bit, we see no evidence of 
a wife/old girlfriend/child in D's past. His closest relationships 
(and, granted, most major HP characters) seem to be male. It adds a 
level of complexity and depth that Dumbledore isn't just destroying his 
best friend to end the wizarding world's side of WWII, but someone with 
a deeper relationship-- in a series this caught up in the meaning and 
consequences of love, I think it does add something to find out how 
Dumbledore's love affected him...on the other hand, we don't find out 
much, do we? It's rather a cheat that there's no allusion to any of 
this within the series.

Valerie Frankel
author of Henry Potty and the Pet Rock
An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody