LobsterFeng said:
And I knew this would come up eventually. Look I knew that that's not what she was implying at all, I just meant that she really worded it badly. And my main point was that she only did it for publicity so way to miss that.
That's your fault for wording it badly.
You're still wrong. There's plenty to suggest that Dumbledore is gay if you look for it. Sure, it's not in your face, but it's there. The very fact that it was recieved so badly just shows what kind of society we live in. Why was it assumed he was straight? Why should him being gay matter at all? Besides, what would you take to be textual evidence of his being gay? Should Rowling have inserted a sex scene as proof? Should she have depicted a hundred year old man going out on a date with another man? Should Dumbledore have worn rainbow robes and waggled his dick infront of the children? How exactly do gay people act, that makes you believe that Dumbledore's behaviour in the book was decidedly not gay?
You said yourself there's no evidence to suggest Dumbledore is straight. Is it possible that she said he was gay because, I don't know, that's how she imagined the character? I sincerely doubt she anticipated the uproar that it created. People wanted to know why he was never married, and they were asking about certain character traits, so she explained the reason for these things. If Dumbledore being gay gave her a lot of publicity, that says more about us as the audience than it does about her.
