Scene: The offices of Bloomsbury Publishing
VP Sales, Bloomsbury Publishing: "Well, JK, if you're not writing anymore Harry books, what we could do is start to market them to audiences with whom we haven't had full saturation."
JK Rowling: "Such as?"
VP: "The gays."
JK: "My books are very gay."
VP: "The gayest. But it seems we've only reached the gay nerds. If we were to retroactively make one of the characters gay, we'd have a whole new wave of publicity and a whole new market."
JK: "Well. It can't be Harry. I've shown him to love Hermione."
VP: "We're thinking Dumbledore."
JK: "But he's old to the point of sexless."
VP: "Exactly. And thus not threatening to the mainstream. And since he's not evil, the gays won't gripe either."
JK: "Are you going to issue a press release? It all seems rather awkward to me."
VP: "No. Just let it be something announced casually. While you're on tour. But in a gay-friendly market. We're thinking New York."
