The latest from Hogwart's....

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Rita Skeeter is a character from the books. We're supposed to hate her.

Yes, but are we now NECESSARILY supposed to interpret her comments as "she was referring to the fact that Dumbedore was a gay homosexual"? I certainly didn't interpret it that way when reading it.

It seems that there are a myriad of web discussions who are picking apart every "hint" that may possibly in some way be interpreted as "Dumbledore was gay."

(i.e. this quote from the same article:

Originally Posted by NYT article

"She proposes that when the two friends had a falling out in a dramatic duel, Grindelwald did not fight but “conjured a white handkerchief from the end of his wand and” — the passage then gives way to an obvious (in retrospect) sexual double entendre."

Oh, isn't it so OBVIOUS now in retrospect? How could we all have been so blind? There's gay gay gay written all over Dumbledore!

Doing that isn't an INVALID reading of the HP books, but it isn't a NECESSARY reading either. That NYT article conveys that idea well.

However, I don't think Rowling went "too far" though in outing Dumbledore, like the NYT article says. I don't think she's ever said "Dumbledore is gay and if you don't think so from reading Harry Potter then you're wrong".