ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[nirupama76]

No: HPFGUIDX 182545

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> SSSusan:
> No, I did not sense that DD was gay and that this relationship was, 
> at least on DD's part, an in-love relationship.  The five years was 
> VERY distressing to me and that, particularly, was where I thought 
it 
> would have been helpful for JKR to have revealed DD's gayness in 
> text.  That is, I think being best buds with someone vs. being in 
> love with someone is a different thing, and the delay in confronting 
> GG made a WHOLE lot more sense to me after the nature of the 
> relationship/feelings was revealed.
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Niru writes:

I'm going off at a tangent here. But this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've 
heard of the "five" years. Is this in DH? (I don't have the book 
handy). Ok... here's why I'm confused. DD and GG were both about 18 
when they met. I seem to remember from PS/SS that GG was defeated 
sometime around 1945 or so (from the chocolate frog card if I'm not 
mistaken). DD was 115 years old when he died. He died in 1997. So he 
was about 52 when he defeated GG (give or take a few years). So, the 
five year gap thing has me royally confounded now. <scratching head 
and hoping someone knows the counter-jinx>

- Niru