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

[afn01288]

No: HPFGUIDX 178198


> Magpie:
> I don't think that really applies here, just because first, he's 
> Dumbledore. How could he only be defined by that? But more 
> importantly, I can't see why this wouldn't be made explicit if it 
> were a het romance. <snip> And this 
> world is so conservative and heteronormative that's even more reason 
> to make it explicit, defining or not! 

afn: There was definitely a heteronormative world view in the series.  
Everyone (except murky X rated fan fic which doesn't interest me in the 
least)seems to expect male-female pairings from beginning to end, and 
the thrust of so much discussion has not been the characters' 
orientation as much as blatant expression that hetero is the focus in 
the books as well as fan discussion. E.g. "Who will "X" (this 
character) marry, dance with, or kiss _always_ of the opposite sex.  
This existed from beginning to end with all the epilogue pairings and 
discussions of pairings (het only) of the children of the principal 
characters.

> 
> That said, reading it I actually did personally put in DD/GG when I 
> read it. Only I thought it was requited and they had a great, heady 
> romance that whole summer until it ended, you know, badly. 

afn: I felt exactly that same way, i.e. heady romance.  Whatever sexual 
acts they might be called a couple.