LOL! I know--the book makes perfect sense without any of this. It's just a different book. I think it was Mike Smith who said this well, that the problem with the revelation isn't that Dumbledore is a gay character, but just that there's no room for this motivation in canon. Canon's already provided us with an explanation for his actions. This is literally telling us a different story, revealing that she kind of...lied?...in the actual book. And she doesn't seem to have trouble telling the story outside the book, so one wonders why she didn't just dramatize it if that's what's supposed to have happened.

It does make me wonder what her impression is of the reaction to the book because it seems like the interview answers I've read have often been about defending the characters and making them more "inherently good."