[ SECRET POST #4511 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4511 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not at all!

I was initially responding to a comment about Snape's love of Lily not being revealed until the final book. I interpreted that to be saying that we should be patient and give JKR time, and that this is just how the HP series works. But I don't think that's a good comparison at all.

The point of the Snape revelation is that it was a revelation. We didn't know that Snape was in love with Lily, and finding out gave us a really important new angle on what we thought we knew about the characters and the series. And saving it for a climactic moment heightened the impact of that revelation, and was ultimately dramatically satisfying. So that makes sense.

On the other hand, with Dumbledore and Grindewald, a significant part of the audience knows that Dumbledore is gay already. So there's no point in saving it up to be a dramatic and revelatory twist, because it can't be. So it doesn't make sense to use that as an explanation for not having them be more explicit and less implied.