I saw this posted on Tumblr, and thought it would be appreciated here.
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This is something that's come up recently with the quote about Fallout and capitalism. And it reinforces the idea of "death of the author", the idea that any work should be evaluated on the text alone, and any interpretation is valid so long as it can be backed up with the text. Furthermore, once a work is completed, the author's interpretation isn't given special consideration or weight.
To believe otherwise implies that a work by a person who's died is necessarily incomplete and cannot be properly interpreted or understood.
So when JK Rowling tweets that Dumbledore is gay, well that's just fan fiction.
I generally agree with this. Though I don't think that author's interpretation shouldn't be given special consideration, but like any art, everyone have their own perspective and that should be respected.
As for JKR, my very subjective view is, twitter isn't a canon source for books. If she wants to add to the universe, she can write another book and do it. Until then, HP world finished with book 7.