Dumbledore Gay, LOLcats and mobile phones

When my colleague arrived at the office in the morning, after greeting him I said,
“Checkout the Lolcats, there’s been some good pictures put up over the weekend.  Especially about Dumbledore being gay.”

“That wouldn’t surprise me,” was his response. 

This of course got me thinking.  Hmmm….    Okay so most of the characters in Harry Potter have an explicit sexuality.  However, now that I think about it, some of the major characters don’t.  Dumbledore and McGonigal for example.  Interestingly Chinese Student just pointed out that those two dance together during the ball in Goblet of Fire.  Can we then extrapolate McGonigals sexuality from this, I would have thought not actually.

Anyway as we discussed this, we of course ended up Googling the subject.  It’s interesting to note that it seems that Dumbledore was outed while JK was making script notes for the next film and that she also mentioned this during her recent talk in the US.

Now it’s been argued that Dumbledore’s gayness wasn’t explicit in the books.  Okay, that’s fair enough until you consider that JK has mentioned before that she wrote extensive back stories for all the major characters, it would be interesting to see if there’s anything in those. 

One could even conceivably think that JK may have said this in order to raise her the Harry Potter profile.  Although I’m not sure she needs to.

Perhaps then the only question that’s left is….
In a school filled with hundreds of teenagers, why do none of them have a mobile phone?

I mean, in the Harry Potter universe, there seem to be no mobile phones!  No teenagers with silly ringtones going off in the middle of Snape’s class.  No texting.  I’m not sure if there is a Web or email either.

Why I wonder is there no mobile phones?  We have an unrequited love that lasted decades, giants, magic and all the rest but not a stupid ringtone, text message or mobile anywhere.