Dumbledore is - (insert favorite euphemism)

I have to admit, I beamed a little when my friend texted me about the new fact about Dumbledore. If only because it makes all my witty banter with my friends true. And that I'm not totally a deranged lunatic for insisting that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had a lot of, ahem, tension.

See, this is my kind of story. If you know my reading habits, you know I tend to love tragic stories, gen if I can get it, lovely love angst if I can't. Tragic love story? Check. Check. Check. Check. Checkcheckcheckcheckcheck. ;) I don't really feel she took the cowards way out. I don't really think it was a cop-out. I have no particular feelings about having written it in the book versus her speaking about it in an interview.

I'm just really, really, really happy that the subtext was exactly that. Luscious, delicious, wonderful subtext that gives me hundreds of shining ideas of what it must have been like for Dumbledore to have to defeat the one he loves because he knew it needed to be done. To sit in his office while Grindelwald was locked away elsewhere. EEEEEEEEEEK. This hits my buttons like that

TRAGIC!

I'm looking forward to seeing some of the fics that are surely to come. Surely?

SURELY?

Dumbledore loves Grindelwald! Practically skipping with glee!

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In case it wasn't wholly clear, I find the Dumbledore/Grindelwald reveal both wonderful, intriguing and lovely. I suppose I could think about the fact that she chose to wait until after she finished the series to reveal this oh-so-important-to-the-plot-point. I suppose I could think about the possibility that she's doing this to gain points with progressivse. I suppose I could think that she chose an 'easy' character to make gay.

Or I could squee about Dumbledore and Grindelwald doing the horizontal mambo and then discussing ways to rule the magical world over a nice, hot cup of tea and maybe a few sandwiches. Ooh, and maybe a roast chicken in the background too. Wouldn't mind some peppermint fudge, and those cakes with the curlicues on top. Then fastforwarding to their last battle where Dumbledore triumphs over Grindelwald, locks him away, and then grieves in solitude with a broken heart that will probably never fully heal.

WIN.

I feel a bit mean, thinking like that. ;)