I am so happy. There is a gay - Triumph & Tragedy

[va32h]

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> susanmcgee48176 wrote:
> <snip> 
> > I wonder why it disturbs some people SO much to think that
> Dumbledore might have made love with Gellert Grindelvald....when it
> doesn't seem to disturb anyone about Tonks and Lupin? Hmmmmmm...

va32h:

What aspect of Tonks/Lupin is supposed to be disturbing? 

Anyway, as to Dumbledore being gay, I suppose I am neither horrified
nor thrilled. It's an interesting tidbit about his character but
looking back over the series, I can't think of anything I would have
interpreted differently at the time, knowing Dumbledore was gay. 

I guess it does offer an additional motivation for Dumbledore's
reluctance to challenge Grindelwald for so long, but the reason given
in DH was satisfactory to me so I didn't necessarily *need* that info.
And we have so many examples of close male friendships in the series
(Sirius and James, Sirius and Lupin, Harry and Ron, even Malfoy and
Crabbe & Goyle!) that I would have taken any closeness between
Dumbledore and Grindelwald to be of the same variety.   

Perhaps one of the reasons Dumbledore trusted Snape so absolutely was
because Dumbledore had also loved briefly yet deeply?  

Although it is rather sad that both Dumbledore and Snape had one great
love and then a lifetime of loneliness afterward.  On the whole, it
would appear that most of the HP characters meet the love of their
lives between the ages of 11 and 16 and if something goes awry in that
relationship they never get over it! 

It does not bother me that Dumbledore's sexuality was not mentioned in
the series, since it is, after all, written from Harry's perspective
and most teenagers are completely uninterested in the sex lives of
their parental figures. 

I'm sort of more intrigued by this Neville-marries-Hannah and they
live over the Leaky Cauldron business.  That's sort of odd.  Bit of a
commute for Neville, unless the new Headmaster of Hogwarts makes an
exception so he can Apparate to work each day or Floo into the grounds. 

Overall though, I really feel that the bare-bones epilogue was a
wonderful gift to the readers (and as critical as I've been about DH I
have always said I liked the epilogue!).  It's very sparseness allowed
us to fill in the details however we liked.  I wish she'd have kept it
that way. 

va32h