BoshStrikesBack posted...
It actually makes his relationship with Grindelwald a lot deeper, and there's nothing to contradict it in the book either.
Please. As if adding a sexual component to a friendship suddenly makes it "a lot deeper." More complicated and tense, maybe, but it's pretty clear that Rowling said that as a way of generating more discussion after the final book's release.
The way that Dumbledore continued to ignore what was the right thing to do with regard to taking down Grindelwald indicates to me that he cared about Gellart on a lot deeper level than friendship.
If Hermione got on some kind of weird reverse discrimination kick and decided to violently uproot wizarding society and have the mistreated House Elves, Goblins, and Centaurs take their place, I don't think Harry would hesitate to confront her and take her down if he had to, and they're as close as friends can be without being romantically linked.
Ron, however, would have a lot harder time doing it because he loves Hermione on a deeper level.
I think Dumbledore being "asexual" hurts the story. The SINGLE MAJOR REASON he trusts Snape so severely despite all evidence to the contrary is Snape's deep love for Lily Evans, on a romantic level. Dumbledore has to understand love at that level firsthand to make that sort of judgment based on that evidence alone. That's not something that can just be understood secondhand.
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