when asked what is my favortie book ... i always felt ashamed and consequently chicken out and just say my second favorite book (i.e. Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson) - i can never reveal to potential bf's that my fave is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (althoung now HP7 beat that book)... but now i am so PROUD to say that i love love love the harry potter series!!! i just found this out at yahoo news and i immediately told all my friends.... more interesting quote from j.k. is:"Rowling, finishing a brief "Open Book Tour" of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason."I FOR ONE NOW WORSHIPS THE GROUND SHE WALKS ON... LOVE HER!!!!! - AND SHE WASN'T EVEN PRESSURED BY ANY GAY GROUPS TO INCLUDE US IN HER SERIES... THANK YOU J.K.!!!!

At this point I'm not sure what to feel. On the one hand I'm more than a bit pissed off because I felt the 7th book was terrible and that the inclusion of this revelation about Dumbledore would have gone a long way towards providing an interesting series of reasons behind his decidedly uncharacteristic actions. Not the mention the neat subversion of the Beowulf/Grendel myth. But she didn't, and this after the fact explanation feels... odd. I'm not sure whether to be happy for this or upset that it wasn't treated like any other fact in the book and had to be added outside the actual written cannon.

No wonder it took him too long to kick Grindelwald's ass. It wasn't guilt. It wasn't just because they were friends. It was because he was in luuuuurve.

Aaaawwww.

Although I must say the thought of Dumbledore and Grindelwald going at it ala sex-hungry continental twinks between studying and spellcasting is sumkindova weird (and simultaneously hot). Yes, I am shallow and superficial.

JKR is luuuurve.

I don't know about anyone else, but I finished the book convinced that Dumbledore was gay. I think it started with the loving portrait written by his lifelong friend whats-his-name Doge. Then when Harry talked to Doge and he was so protective of Albus and his memory. I thought perhaps I was digging too deeply for gayness, but I had the distinct impression he had been his companion.

Then the description of the photo of he and Grindlewald, the rumors about their friendship and D's past in general, and Rita Skeeter's dubious remark about the relationship between Dumbledore and Harry being "innappropriate".

At the time I thought it was kind of ingenious. She had provided fairly clear indications of a major character's homosexuality without a heavy-handed outing story which can get old. Which was why I was surprised to see people bemoaning the lack of a gay character in HP. Which... made me think I had been reading too much into it. But yay, I was right! :)