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

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> Magpie:
> Actually, there isn't a gay couple, there's a gay man. She said
> Dumbledore had an *unrequited* affair with Grindenwald. So yeah, more
> like Snape.
>
> -m
>

But Lily and Snape made it into canon with Snape's unrequited affair.
Plus we get lots more about that love. With DD, the human love
attraction is far less transparent, but I too as someone else said
picked up on something more than friendship with Grindelwald and DD.

Though, it seems like this would have been an even more sensational
allegation in Rita Skeeter' Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.

Perhaps because of the largely young audience of the printed books, JKR
didn't want to be that explicit in the black and white text of DH.  For
those of us who go deeper, there is more to be told. The topic of
orientation at whatever age would not be inappropriate, but perhaps
playing this down for a wider general readership was appropriate.

Ideas?

afn