The latest from Hogwart's....

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

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.