[HPforGrownups] Re: I am so happy. There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178250

Carol:

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".

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

Well, I have to eat my words, or at least one helping of them. True to 
form, the media is to blame. The Leaky Caldron quote above says JKR 
revealed the "fact" that DD is homosexual. By contrast, JKR's actual 
words were apparently, "I've always thought DD was gay."  She didn't 
say, "DD is gay", she merely replied with her own musings on the 
subject. It was the press which reported it as fact.

So I don't think JKR is entirely to blame on this, only insofar as with 
all her media experience by now she should have realized what would 
happen to her words as they passed through the media filter and came out 
the other side.

> and to treat her speculations about the future of her surviving
> characters [etc.]

Well, if the current situation is any indication, I'd say it doesn't 
appear as if JKR is necessarily trying to control how fandom views her 
creations. She's just a bit too heedless about how her pronouncements 
are received. JKR saying, "I've always thought of DD as gay," is NOT the 
same as Lee Kaiwen saying it. One is reported as gospel, the other as 
the rabid musings of a crackpot :-)

--CJ