[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But on the other hand: why did it have to be only Dumbledore? Why did it have to be only the headmaster and father-figure, who, as you explain, would have had no opportunity to mention or express his sexuality? We hear about Snape's undying love for Lily, and are privy to Hagrid courting Madame Olympe, and we hear all about Remus and Tonks - adults in authority were certainly not off-limits to having in-text love lives, and neither were any of the hundreds of students, so...why did she pick the oldest, wisest, and least-likely-to-have-a-sex-life character to be the only gay character? Why couldn't it have also been somebody else? Why couldn't somebody have had a same-sex partner in passing?

Intentional or not, she picked the character that would be the most inconspicuous without a mentioned love life.

[(Anonymous)]

He's also a hugely central character without whom none of the story would have taken place. (Let's not go into the "Dumbledore is Evil Chessmaster" bit, please, though I just set you or anyone else up for it.) Voldemort was trounced twice because of his efforts. Many lives were saved. And oh, by the way, he was gay.

I actually think mentioning it as an afterthought after showing us this AMAZING character on the side of Good is better, because it shows assholes and bigots that even a gay person can do massive amounts of good without getting gay germs all over everything and being obviously gay.

Seriously, would you have preferred an offhand mention to Fred or George making out with Lee Jordan, or Blaise Zabini talking about his boyfriend at Slug Club, to THAT?

[(Anonymous)]

But why not have both? It's statistically impossible for Dumbles to be the only gay character in Harry Potter, considering there are dozens and dozens of characters.