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Boy, I'm glad you said that. I was just coming back here to ask you if you saw that in Book 7 or was it just me? Because unfortunately I have some conservative Xtians on my f'list who are PISSY about this. I got in a conversation with one of them, saying I wasn't surprised at all because I thought it was pretty clear in Book 7, even though before that, it had never occurred to me to think about Dumbledore's sexuality. And she said she hadn't seen that at all and it makes her really angry when the rug is pulled out from her regarding a character she thinks she knows well, and the whole thing of Dumbledore being gay is completely irrelevant and therefore the author should just shut up. I pointed out 1) JKR couldn't very well allow a scriptwriter to turn her gay character straight w/o saying something and 2) when she's asked a direct question about the character's love life, why shouldn't she be honest?

No response - which is probably a good thing because I think she would have flamed me ... and also I doubt she has a very logical response. It's a knee-jerk negative reaction on her part, I think.

I don't know how I ended up with conservative, right-wing het Xtians and liberal, polyamorous bisexual Pagans on the same friends list. Don't tell on me. ::blinks::