Canon citation requested (was Re: The problems with DD being gay)

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 178514

> > Magpie:
> > But so is Dumbledore dead and no longer a teacher. (Technically 
he's
> > never been a teacher, just a headmaster
> 
> Panhandle:
> 
> I'm pretty sure Dumbledore was the Transfiguration professor prior 
to his
> appointment as Headmaster.   
> 
> See Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 17.  Tom Riddle refers to " ... the
> Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore ...".  

Magpie:
Sorry--no, I meant that he was never a teacher during Harry's story 
so Harry's only known him as a headmaster and never a teacher. I now 
Tom Riddle and others knew him as a teacher.

Alla:

But that's my point about Lupin we only hear about his involvement
with Tonks when he is **no longer** teacher, when he becomes fellow
order member and to some extent comrad IMO.

We have not heard anything about his love life when he was teaching.

Magpie:
Dumbledore's never been a teacher during the series--and at the point 
Harry's learning about Grindenwald, he's dead! 

Of course I can see Dumbledore not mentioning his sexual preference 
to Harry, and Harry never seeing him do anything that would show it 
to him. Though I think the Grindelwald relationship, if he was in 
love with him, would be relevent. Not that I can't make it work 
character-wise for Dumbledore to not say anything about it, since it 
seems totally in character for him to talk about other peoples' 
romantic motivations while brushing over his own if he thought it 
made him look bad. But I don't think JKR was forced to leave it out 
if she wanted it in there. I think she's the one who made the 
decision to not give us that reason as part of the mix of 
Dumbledore's motivations.

It will be interesting to see if she would put it in the 
encyclopedia, actually.

-m