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

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178171

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.

colebiancardi:
> 
> ouch.  Why would DD's time alone spend with Harry have a shocked 
face
> next to it?  

Ceridwen:
Because that would be the expression of Rita Skeeter, Auntie Murial 
(Muriel?), or anyone else spouting that tripe.

colebiancardi:
> Gay people are not pedophiles.  In fact, most pedophiles
> state that they are straight.  Pedophilia has nothing to do with
> whether you are gay or not.  

Ceridwen:
Rita Skeeter made that implication in the book when she said 
something about Dumbledore spending a lot of time with Harry, that 
the relationship was unhealthy.  Usually when someone is out to trash 
someone else, facts have little to do with it.

colebiancardi:
> Also, children who are victims of pedophilia do not get trashed in 
any
> newspaper, rag or not.  They are protected.  I could not see even 
Rita
> Skeeter writing a piece like this.  

Ceridwen:
She made the implication.  "It's (the Potter-Dumbledore relationship) 
been called unhealthy, even sinister." *(snip)*  "...but there is no 
question that Dumbledore took an unnatural interest in Potter from 
the word go."  *(snip again)*  "It's certainly an open secret that 
Potter has had a most troubled adolescence."  DH, ch. 2, page 27 
Scholastic.  On the next page, she casts suspicion on Harry for 
Dumbledore's murder.

colebiancardi:
> Even though HP is just a work of fiction, I would have been really
> offended if JKR had written that storyline (about pedophilia) in any
> of the books and would have probably stopped reading the HP books at
> that point & time.  
*(snip)*
> Only fringe groups promote that belief, as well as the belief that
> gays are trying to influence children to their lifestyle.  And those
> fringe groups are irrevelant to begin with.

Ceridwen:
If the gay storyline was a noticeable part of DH, I would say that 
the point is to show that these sorts of people are mean-spirited.  
Rita Skeeter is just drooling over the innuendos she's creating for 
her interview.  She's attacking a man who is just four weeks dead in 
the story, and lying about how close she is to "friendless" Harry 
Potter.  Not exactly a pillar of honesty and virtue.

We know, because we're more often in Harry's POV than in any other, 
that any sort of allegations about Dumbledore and Harry are a load of 
hooey.  But the allegations seem to be there, in my opinion.  Did it 
really look like *I* was saying, as my own opinion:
"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* ?"

Ceridwen.