Big Gay Dumbledore

Interesting discussion on the significance of J.K. Rowling's statement on Dumbledore's sexual orientation can be found here and here.

• Heteronormative assumptions: equivalent to assuming a character's whiteness?
  
• When does something become canon? Was the Silmarillion canon before publication? Are Rowling's notes? What of the oft-alluded Potter encyclopedia she claims to be planning?
  
• This was not exactly a bolt from the blue.
  

Unrelatedly, this book subverting the telepathic-animal subgenre is either going to be appalling or terrific.