Well, it was new to me

[rivers_bend]

I've been seeing the news about JK's outing of Dumbledore all over my f'list but only this morning saw:

"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

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[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I'm not holding my breath on Lupin, seeing as she seemed to go out of her way to make him straight. But there's always a possibility with Sirius :D

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

well, maybe not entirely straight. some of us are bi. ;)

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

some of us are bi.
Oh, absolutely! In the real world. My experience with the world of children's/teens' fiction though? Is that dichotomy is king. More's the pity.

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

ah, good point. when i was a kid, NO ONE in fiction was gay, so there has been some progress. of course, there's still a long way to go -- witness the gasps from the audience that greeted JKR's words. i look for the day when this wouldn't shock anyone at all...

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Definite progress. There was Annie on my Mind when I was young. That was pretty much it. Every year it gets a little better.

Oh, there was also the Green and Blue Riders in Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. That was something :)

But oh yes, I do hope that I live to see the day where it's neither here nor there.

[purridot.livejournal.com]

I dunno, his relationship with Tonks seems a bit... I don't know how to describe it... more comforting than romantic/soul-matey. But that's only my impression. (I like Tonks, however). Or, as other people have stated, maybe Lupin *is* bi. It just seemed to me that JKR made such an effort earlier to establish a tight bond between Lupin and Black; but such a bond doesn't have to be sexual, really. I'm disappointed she didn't give Lupin more to do in the later books, especially as she said in an interview that he was one of her favourite characters :-(

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I could have done with more Lupin myself. I do remember wondering if she made the relationship with Tonks in rebellion against the S/L fanfic though. Mostly because it seemed a little forced. Though there's always the reading that he gave in to her because she was Sirius' cousin and he missed S so much...

Ach, I don't know enough about this fandom to say.