[ SECRET POST #3212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3212 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you were a teacher would you discuss it with your students?

Considering that the friendship was exposed in a tell-all book meant to shock, it can be assumed that Dumbledore never revealed his feelings, at least not in a way Bathilda Bagshot picked up on. Rita Skeeter would be all over that.

[sarillia]

I can go along with that argument, though I think there are ways it could have been done okay. I'm not saying that Dumbledore definitely should have said something in the book (though I refuse to look at him as an example of gay representation as things stand now). I just disagreed with that particular argument.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think Bagshot did pick up on it. The way the relationship (and Dumbledore's friendship with Doge) is written about in the biography pinged me as insinuating that Dumbledore was gay - it's very reminiscent of the way the British press used to write about semi-closeted celebrities when they wanted to hint but didn't have any evidence that would stand up in court (and regardless of whether or not homosexuality is acceptable in the wizarding world, you'd have to be pretty sure of your ground in alleging an affair with Grindelwald.

I wish JKR had made things a bit more explicit, but I did get a strong sense that we were supposed to read Dumbledore as gay, and I'm not someone who has strong slash goggles. Maybe it's partly a cultural/ generational thing as to whether you pick up on it or not.