In her outing of Dumbledore, Ms. Rowling seemed to be confirming the smarmy kiss-and-tell insinuations of her gossip-mongering character Rita Skeeter, whose lurid biography of the apparently saintly headmaster — titled “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore” — is described in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
[ New York Times: Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ‘Is’ and ‘Gay’ ]
Now really, NYT, it ain’t Rita-Skeeter worthy unless it’s not true.
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