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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 178211

Alla quoted a Leaky article:
>
> > "First, the biggest revelation of the night came when Jo revealed
to her audience the fact that Albus Dumbledore is gay
> 
Lee replied:
> Well, I'd have to dispute the subject line: "There is a gay couple
in canon". I'd say this is another clear case of a difference between
a character in her head and the one on the page. If the character in
JKR's mind is homosexual, that's fine. But there's nothing of it in
the canon.

Carol responds:

I agree with you. It seems to me that, since the last book came out,
JKR has been trying to control the interpretation of her characters
and to treat her speculations about the future of her surviving
characters (for example, Neville's future wife, who started out to be
Luna and is currently Hanah Abbot, or Ron's job, which started out as
Auror and then became a partner in George's shop) or her views on her
characters' personalities (e.g., the various remarks on Snape, whom
she seems to have trouble distinguishing from the chemistry teacher
who inspired him). Now we have Dumbledore's unrequited love for
Grindelwald, whereas in canon, all we have is an aborted friendship
and DD's five-year hesitation in going after Grindelwald. But that's
all there is, and the reader is free to posit other (equally
uncanonical) explanations for DD's hesitation. If it isn't in the
books, it isn't canon. And an author's intentions, or her personal
interpretation, should not take precedence over other interpretations
that consider the text and only the text (including gaps,
contradictions, and ambiguities--I'm not assuming a consistent text
with an-always reliable narrator). 

Sorry, JKR, but I'm capable of interpreting the books without your
help, as is everyone else on this list, and I really wish you would
just stop giving interviews altogether. Put your energies and
imagination into writing another book and leave the Potterverse alone.
I'm at a point where I don't even want the encyclopedia. (Read "Death
of the Author," JKR. Or if that's too extreme, try "The Intentional
Fallacy." Did Jane Austen tell people how to interpret her books? Did
the Bronte sisters? Did Herman Melville? Trust your readers, and let
your readers trust your text, or determine where it's untrustworthy by
comparison to other passages.

Carol, taking anything JKR says about her characters and her imagined
view of them with more than a grain of salt