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Hehehe, but really ... I guess for all intents and purposes, J.K. had him stay in the (witches) broom closet. But Dumbledore may not have. Just because he wasn't out to the students, doesn't mean he wasn't out to his friends and colleagues. Perhaps it was misguided of him not to come out to Harry - - maybe due to lame fears of impropriety and making the lad nervous when they had all those private pensieve lessons together in Harry's 6th year.
It had nothing to do with the story being told, but I kinda get that J.K. was a little lame for not having Dumbledore come out ... when his orientation and matter-of-fact proudness of same could have been an inspiration to millions of young teens.
As an author, she likely had more of a duty to tell the proper tale than to have political considerations ... but I think it can be argued that she let a large part of her public down by revealing this incourageously late.
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