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For real?

I kind of really, really doubt the 'would have told you years ago' part, because even (especially!) after the books had become so hugely popular, her publishers (particularly the American ones) would probably have begged, pleaded, bribed and just about done anything to keep her not only from putting this into the books more explicitly, but also from revealing it in interviews, and following fandom as closely as she obviously did, she must have known that there would have been a largely favourable reaction to a gay character from everyone except the more conservative subset of readers, or maybe more precisely, their parents, but with two movies to come, it's still rather awesome...