[HPforGrownups] Re: The problems with DD being gay

[Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon]

No: HPFGUIDX 178309


> 
> Del scratches her head and answers:
> I spent an entire post doing just that, so I don't understand exactly
> what you're expecting from me here?
> 
> ***
> 
> Susan McGee wrote:
> > I would be outraged and stricken if JKR were to say that DD was
> > fixated on young boys or attracted to young boys.
> 
> Del replies:
> So would I. But that wasn't the point of my post.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes there is. I presented that evidence in my first post. You can
> choose to interpret that evidence differently than I do, but you can't
> say it's not there.


Sorry, Del, but no there isn't. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in
any of the seven books that indicate the adult Dumbledore was ever attracted
to adolescent boys.

His infatuation with Grindlewald was completely age-appropriate.  It most
certainly was not evidence of a pathology.  

It seems that if we accept your judgment of Dumbledore, then every 18 year
old boy that falls in love with a 16 year old girl is a pedophile.  Which
is, to quote Vernon, a load of tosh.

Panhandle
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