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

[dumbledore11214]

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>   ***Katie responds:
>   Amen, sister. I wish JKR would just stop talking. It seems like 
after 10 years of keeping mum, she has a bad case of verbal 
diarreah. Everything she says makes me wonder if she even wrote 
these books!! (Just kidding, but really!)
><SNIP>


Alla:

I do not understand this at all. It is not like JKR went on the 
stage and out of the blue started screaming OMG Dumbledore is gay.

I mean, I do understand your view that I snipped. Sure, I would 
prefer it being in the books as well, but she was ASKED the question 
about DD's love life. It is not like she even said she wanted to 
give a statement or something.

What was she supposed to do, say it is a secret or something?

She said she always envisioned DD to be gay, so what if she honestly 
found no place to mention it in the books?

Why should she keep it a secret now and avoid the question?

Again, it is not like she went to news and said, AWWWWW, I have 
ajuicy juicy bit of info to tell you guys.

I think that if this question was not asked, we may have never knew 
that IMO of course.


It is everybody's right to not consider her interviews as canon of 
course.

I used to take them as secondary canon no questions asked, I am more 
cautious now simply because yeah, I saw too many inconsistencies in 
the interviews and what came out in DH.

But I still take an unquestionable fact ( for me obviously) as a 
secondary canon, especially when it explains (IMO) so much of DD 
motivations.


Let me stress again, I WOULD prefer it to be in the books, but I 
think that since as somebody said somewhere else JKR is pretty much 
the first author whose books achieved such popularity to out major 
character is gay, I like it a lot.

Do I think that maybe she did not want to let the people who burn 
the books more reasons to burn the books maybe played a part in her 
decision to not say so in the books?

ABSOLUTELY and if it is true, I cannot say that I can judge her too 
harshly.

But do I honestly think that the possibility that JKR did not 
mention Dumbledore's sexuality because she just found no place for 
it plotwise, while giving vague hints?

Yes, I do. I do not remember Minerva going around and saying "I am 
lesbian or I am straight" or ANY of the teachers for that matter.

But obviously I do wish she would mention once or twice gay or 
lesbian kids kissing in the background - as Magpie, I think said, to 
treat it casually, etc.

JMO,

Alla