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

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 21 00:06:31 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 178156

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? 

Ceridwen:
We weren't told this in the book.  I know other people don't see DD's 
love for GG impacting the story, but it makes a difference for me in 
how I view Dumbledore.  It suddenly makes sense that he waited half a 
century or so to face Grindelwald, for instance.

I don't see anything wrong with Harry finding out through Rita 
Skeeter's book.  He could even have one of those moments of denial 
with Hermione asking him if it really makes a difference, and he 
would of course have to answer no.  The charge is pedophelia.  Harry 
knows, and we know by being in Harry's mind, that nothing of the sort 
happened.

My favorite scenario would be Auntie Murial, though.  The way she 
spouted off at the wedding, it's surprising she didn't mention a 
scandal linking DD romantically with his generation's Dark Wizard.  
Harry would have to defend Dumbledore's memory because of course, 
Auntie Muriel would go too far.

The usual way would be for Hermione to find it out in her research.  
Auntie Murial reveal first for me, second, Rita Skeeter.

But, like I said, your mileage may vary.

Ceridwen.





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