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Date: 2016-03-12 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diceytillerman.livejournal.com
I also think a strong argument can be made that literally anything an author says outside the actual text counts as more information outside the book.

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Date: 2016-03-12 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
In a rigidly pedantic sense, yes. But in practice there's a difference.

Saying "Dumbledore is gay" in response to a specific question about his non-standard-heterosexual reaction to a romantic situation would be the one. Just up and saying "Dumbledore is gay" without any textual evidence one way or another was the other.

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Date: 2016-03-12 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diceytillerman.livejournal.com
I didn't mean it in a rigidly pedantic way. I guess I don't see the distinction quite as clearly.

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Date: 2016-03-12 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
Do you mean that you actually don't see a distinction, or that you don't think the distinction is significant?

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Date: 2016-03-12 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diceytillerman.livejournal.com
Right now I honestly don't understand what the distinction is. I'm not arguing that there isn't one, but I don't currently comprehend what it is.

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Date: 2016-03-12 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
The situation in which she said it was somewhere in between, I think. It was in response to a question about whether Dumbledore ever found "true love". Perhaps, as far as she was concerned, the evidence was there in the text, for those with eyes to see.

In this particular case it's not just about whether (or how far) she went beyond textual evidence, but also about what her audience was prepared to hear. For example, there's no evidence in the book that Dumbledore is straight, but had she answered that he just never found the right girl it's highly unlikely that her remark would have been subject to the same kind of interrogation.

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