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[errantimpulses]

So in case you haven't read this, it contains spoilers for the last Harry Potter book. And here are my thoughts, not on the content, which I'm all, "Dur!" but on some of the comments!

Comments are spoilers for the article, of course!

Comments

[vejiicakes]

I got all excited reading the comments until they took that sadly inevitable nosedive. I mean, there was the overtly negative "OMG NO TEH GHEYS ARE GROSS!" comments, which I somehow find I can't get all that worked up over these days. Maybe just because I already know they're a lost cause, maybe because they're clearly too set in their beliefs, I couldn't say

[errantimpulses]

Exactly! Like, I'm ignoring the outright gay bashing because those people are obviously idiots. And yeah, since dumbledore is gay, he must want to hit on an underage harry....yep JUST as much as Snape wants to hit on an underage hermione. (I won't go off into my rant as to why lj removed Snape/Harry porn but not Snape/Hermione porn, but it's kiiiiind of the same vein.)

I wouldn't have assumed Dumbledore was written to be gay (I mean, I was all, "he has the hots for that dude!"....but I read a lot of slash, so while I see it, I know it might not be intentional, lol), either, because like I said, right now, the default is probably you assume people are heterosexual, since the majority of people tend to lean that way, and it would probably be a safer bet. However, to be fully, "I didn't need to know!" when it turns out a character is gay, you're basically saying, "I don't want him to be gay," not that you don't want to know their sexuality, because chances are, you think you DO know his orientation, and you're assuming he's straight