In which I have feels (again) about the Dumbledore-is-gay issue.
I'm going to copypasta from Tumblr here, because DW/LJ are semi-permanent, and Tumblr is the digital equivalent of newspaper - tomorrow it'll just be a wrapper for fish and chips. And I suspect this is going to come up again.
This is in reference to these two images:
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This is in reference to these two images:
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The only difference I'd say is that I'd have put the percentage as more than 50% good, because I do think on a cost/benefit scale the downside to Dumbledore coming out in the books is rather immense, especially as the series exploded. There is not a chance in hell that there would not have been a media firestorm over 'character from beloved fiction comes out', with Dumbledore's sexuality overshadowing even the deaths in terms of focus, and would change the way the books were received in ways that they didn't really need to be. Especially as the specter of paedophilia, however completely unfairly, would the come to haunt the book.
But as she never had to have him come out - we agree that it doesn't exactly flow naturally from the text, that she revealed it at all is, I think, quite worthwhile. I went into it a bit in the link above, but basically she made it explicit in a highly detailed canon, and that alone is worthwhile. It doesn't make 'the Harry Potter world' part of queer canon, but it's certainly revealed to be queer-friendly.
Even ignoring the unfathomable amounts of slash written within it by fans.
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