Eros?

So the people in Harry Potter fandom, the ones who like to point at near-invisible pieces of subtext and then shriek "everyone's gay!!!!" are finally validated.

JK Rowling says Dumbledore is gay

A few thoughts on this:

* Suddenly Dumbledore's story jumps to the forefront of "things I'd like to read." Falling in love at such a young age, nearly falling into the dark side, pulling yourself out at great harm to your family, then killing your old flame in the battle of the century? That beats the skinny kid with the dead parents any day.

* This squarely throws HP into the category of "stories where the protagonist is easily the least interesting thing going on, also with a lot of gay subtext." See also: Lord of the Rings.

* The more I think about this, the more I think JKR made a serious narrative mistake. Harry is the poster boy for dumb luck. He's a footnote in Voldemort's plans for world domination, one that just won't go away. He ends up marrying a girl because he covets her family, and has kids that he names after other people he desperately wants to keep around. Harry is kind of sad. He's not particularly talented or intelligent. He's just there.

How interesting would it be to turn this series inside out and watch Dumbledore watching Harry, instead of Harry taking Dumbledore for granted, even after he's dead? That, although maybe not as palatable to the children's lit readers, sounds like a hell of a story. Would it work without the enormous success of the current books? Perhaps not. But man, that's the story I want to read.