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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This
No actually he did kinda do that.
I'm just saying that making Dumbledore gay post the release and several weeks of sales of the last book is kinda sketchy. If it didn't matter enough to include it into the books, it didn't matter enough to ever make him gay. His family was only mentioned after his death and even then it played a minor role. It was just thrown into the story to give Harry a reason to doubt Dumbledore and the mission he gave Harry. Really, the faith that Harry had in Dumbledore thinking that they were friends and that he knew and could trust Dumbledore.
Basically anything in Dumbledore's past and private life was irrelevant to the story
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She revealed that he was gay after 7's release because people were questioning his relationship with Grindelwald. Obviously, she knew very early in the writing process that he was gay, but there was no reason to bring it up any earlier.
And the Dumbledore plot in 7 was very important in a number of ways. It showed his connection to Gridelwald, which helped explain Dumbledore's interest in the Hallows—as well as explaining why he had James's invisibility cloak and how he ended up with the elder wand. It also explained Dumbledore's reasons for staying Headmaster, rather than going for Minister (as many people wanted him to); he feared being in a position of power because of his personal history. It hints at the ways in which Dumbledore was manipulative concerning Harry, and the whole fiasco with his sister marked an important turning point in his life. Beyond all that, it just goes to show people that you never really know someone as well as you think you do.
In a lot of ways, the Dumbledore details following his death are more significant to his character development than much of what we learned about him while he was alive.
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