The problems with DD being gay

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 178225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at ...>
wrote:
> I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned some of the real
> problems with the matter of DD having been in love with GG,
> and having "protected" GG for so long because of this love.

> GG was very young when DD fell in love with him. If I'm not
> mistaken, he was an older teen, just like DD. He was not an
> *adult* yet. He was also very handsome.



Hmmmm...I AM happy about JKR says that DD is gay. I would be
outraged and stricken if JKR were to say that DD was fixated
on young boys or attracted to young boys. They are, of course,
two separate things.  I do not believe that canon supports the
idea that   DD was attracted to and spied upon adolescent boys
and was romantically or sexually infatuated with them. There is
no evidence for this fact.

I'm interested in the fact that after you carefully lay out this
argument about how canon supports DD as fixated on adolescent
boys you then say that that was what Rita Skeeter (a known
distorter of the truth) would say and you don't agree.

It's great that we agree, then!

The canon does not support Albus Dumbledore being fixated on
teenage boys. It does not support him being a pervert or a
child sexual abuser.

I do become concerned when some people jump from the announcement
that DD is gay to the idea that he must be a pervert or someone
who secretly yearns after youth. I think it's connected to the
mistaken idea that it is gay men or lesbians who molest children
or youth. That of course is not true.

J.K. Rowling stated that Albus Dumbledore fell in love with GG.
They were both the same or around the same age. It was an equal
relationship with someone of the same age (if in fact they had a
relationship, we don't know).

We don't know if DD ever had another partner or lover. J.K. Rowling
doesn't say. He, of course, could have.

We do know that DD cared for and protected the children of Hogwarts
to the best of his ability.

We don't know that he never confronted Tom Riddle. We do know he
spent his life fighting Tom Riddle.

Despite being in love with GG, Dumbledore defeated him in battle
and had him sent to prison for the rest of his life. Yes, he
delayed can one imagine going  into mortal battle with someone
a) you had been in love with and b) someone who reminded you of
the worst mistakes of your own life?

We don't know that Sirius was never punished. As Snape said,
James was saving Sirius as well as Severus. Sirius endangered
Severus, but Severus was rescued.

So this canon support of Dumbledore as someone who is fixated on
young boys seems to evaporate.

Susan McGee