Sirius/Remus was canon.... sort of

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

From the livetweet of a cast interview earlier today. http://twitter.com/#!/SnitchSeeker/status/54594602379919360



ETA: But then they later tweeted A thousand sorries, but just listened to the audio again, & Thewlis said he played Lupin as gay because of Cuaron, without JKR's knowledge.

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[majorjune.livejournal.com]

He was a homosexual man who stopped acting on his sexual urges, who stopped engaging in homosexuality.

Well, do we really know that for a fact?

Rowling doesn't go into the romantic/sexual lives of any of the Hogwarts staff, with the possible exception of Hagrid and Filch/Pince.

We know nothing about McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, Sinistra, Trelawney, etc. Dumbledore could well have had other homosexual relationships before, and after, Grindewald. They may have been actual relationships that ended for whatever reason, they may have been nothing but one night stands. We just don't know for sure.

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

The text doesn't present it as fact (then again, the text doesn't explicitly present Dumbledore as homosexual either), but JKR did in an interview. I think that she said something along the lines of, "He lost his moral compass completely when he fell in love and I think subsequently became very mistrusting of his own judgment in those matters, so became quite asexual. He led a celibate and bookish life."

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Damnit June, I have no idea why but your post made me go in the gutter.

Anybody remember the movie Airplane where the kid goes up in the cockpit and the pilot asks him some questions:

Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?


Now for whatever reason, thats how I'm seeing Dumbledore now, as the captain in Airplane. I have no idea why.