So they put out a shock factor after the series ends.. i see no issue, not like its going to change the story for those who read it before... just give people another reason to re-read it with this implication.

This and others. Because we all know if he's a gay professor who pays special attention to Harry Potter ... well, there are wands involved.


Must.Be.So.


Gay older wizard with young students in his charge = pedosorcery

See, this to me is why it should be a non-issue. While I suspect that you are kidding in your post, there will be others (not on this board) who will immediately make the assumption that if Dumbledore is gay, he must of course be sexually interested in Potter (a minor through the entire series) because well if he is into one kind of "deviance" (homosexuality) then he must be a complete deviant (being interested in young boys and who knows what else).

I still maintain that whether he is gay or not has little to no impact on the story line. Even if there was a relationship with Grin-whatever (I forget his name) is romantic in nature, it does not affect the story one way or the other. Had Rowling included more detail on their relationship in the narrative in book 7, it would not (in my mind at least) not deserved any more discussion (and a separate thread) than any other minor plot points.

I guess I come from the school of thought that the more one highlights the differences, the longer it takes for society to stop making prejudices against said different people.

And I come from the school of thought that says when it's recognized that quite a few of the most talented, respected, lauded and beloved persons, fictional or un, are homosexual .... the sooner people will stop thinking of it as "deviant."

Oh yes- on "other boards" it was said that he would have a sexual interest in Harry- immediately denounced as bigotry and small mindedness.

I honestly do not care though I did get the feeling this was possible when I read the last book-

Though I do question in this day and age why men can not be friends, like brothers- and love each other without people assuming they are gay. It's like the discrimination has shifted the othert direction.

It was announced he is gay, not a pederast.

And it is the view of many that sexual interest in 15-17 year old boys isn't really pedarasty. Why this very board has been home to sexual comment and innuendo (gay and straight) about both the characters and the actors playing them.

That is not to say, of course, that homosexuality and interest in older teenagers go hand in hand. I think general experience among the general population (an average is what I'm talking about here) is that it is common among both orientations. And harboring the thoughts and doing anything about them are two completely different thoughts.

I'd say it is just as likely that a straight Dumbledore had the occasional erotic thought about Hermione as that a gay Dumbledore did the same about Ron (I ignore Harry since I can't imagine why anybody would have any attraction at all towards such an ininteresting character).

Clearly- I did not make the observation but it was made elsewhere.

Not too surprising though-someone would have to go there- in jest or in earnest.

A rare picture of a young Dumbledore trying to budge child Hagrid towards the breakfast table. They say the relationship only blossomed after Hagrid came of age, Dumbledore eventually breaking it off with gifts of a pink umbrella and a hut.

No gay headmaster would let his owlery get that filthy...