[ SECRET POST #4789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4789 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's enough in the last book to support her claim that she had always considered Dumbledore gay. A lot of people picked up on the subtext even before she said anything. But then of course a LOT of people picked up on Sirius/Remus, too, despite her not intending them to be read that way. So I'm not saying the text is at all clear on Dumbledore/Grindelwald, or that it's some great representation, but I also don't think it was an afterthought for her.

[(Anonymous)]

If "a lot of people" in fandom supposedly picked up on subtext, I take that with a big grain of salt. Fandom has a tendency to see lots of things through slash goggles and they also tend to think that absence of a het relationship/love interest is proof that there's gay smoke AND gay fire.

[(Anonymous)]

It was always the author's intention for the smoke and the fire to be gay, and also the fire is mixed-race.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a very good point about Sirius and Remus. I'd argue that textually there's a LOT more evidence for them than for Grindelwald/Dumbledore, if we're going solely by what was actually written.