Subtext! This was posted on my flist, and I thought I'd pass the quotes along.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE REMEMBERED by Elphias Doge
I met Albus Dumbledore at the age of eleven, on our first day at Hogwarts. Our mutual attraction was undoubtedly due to the fact that we both felt ourselves to be outsiders.
Stripping away the popular image of serene, silver-bearded wisdom, Rita Skeeter reveals the disturbed childhood, the lawless youth, the lifelong feuds and the guilty secrets that Dumbledore carried to his grave. WHY was the man tipped to be Minister for Magic content to remain a mere headmaster?
Doge looked stiff and solemn at this, but Auntie Muriel drained her goblet and clicked her bony fingers at a passing waiter for a replacement. She took another large gulp of champagne, belched and then said, 'There's no need to look like a pair of stuffed frogs! Before he became so respected and respectable and all that tosh, there were some mighty funny rumours about Albus!'
'Ill-informed sniping,' said Doge, turning radish-coloured again.
'You would say that, Elphias,' cackled Auntie Muriel. 'I noticed how you skated over the sticky patches in that obituary of yours!'
'I'm sorry you think so,' said Doge, more coldly still. 'I assure you I was writing from the heart.'
'Oh, we all know you worshipped Dumbledore; I daresay you'll still think he was a saint even if it does turn out he did away with his Squib sister!'
Dumbledore intended, next, to take a Grand Tour with Elphias 'Dogbreath' Doge, the dim-witted but devoted sidekick he had picked up at school. The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived....'
'Elphias Doge mentioned her to us,' said Harry, trying to spare Hermione.
'That old berk,' muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. 'Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.' (
So, who's your OTP? AD/GG or AD/ED?