Dear Yuletide Author:

( I believe I am borrowing heavily from last year's letter, here... )

weighing in

For those who haven't heard (are there any of you left?) - Dumbledore/Grindelwald is canon.

I'll repost my initial (slightly grouchy) reaction to this, from a comment in Aria's journal:

'Wow, I would have had a LOT fewer secret gripes about the heterocentric HP-verse if she had bothered to tell us that before. If Harry's Heroic And Powerful (Though Flawed) Role Model throughout the whole frigging series was gay, that's a statement of some kind or other, even if it's fairly incidental to Dumbledore's importance as a character. So...I guess I can see why she would have kept quiet about it, even though the 'oh, I would have told you years ago! tra la!' thing just reeks of hypocrisy. She knows her fans, she knows fandom, and if she was really invested in making them squeal and not in avoiding the potential alienation of the conservative parental market, she would have told us years ago.'

I mean, I have no problem at all with the fact that Rowling waited for the series to end and then sprang a revelation like this - it means that the fact of sexuality just gets added to what we already know, rather than colouring the reading of the book, and that's fine. It's her playing coy with authorial intent that rubs me the wrong way.

HOWEVER, let it not be said that I am one to spend ages staring a gift horse in the mouth or any other unappealingly bestial metaphors. EVEN IF IT'S NOT REMUS/SIRUS (bitter? me? okay, maybe a little), IT'S GAY CANON! Considering the huge public profile & popularity of the books, this is a great thing.

Does anyone who's been actually following the pairing have any fic or art recs? I know I read one fic a while back about sex on a chair and the use of spells, but I forgot to bookmark it because I am a FOOL. Located! Hallowing Lions by wired_lizard.