Everyone’s Thrilled That Dumbledore Likes Men

By recently outing Dumbledore as a homosexual, Harry Potter creator JK Rowling really ran the risk of alienating all the hard-line God-fearing fundamental Christians who were such gigantic fans of the witchcraft-based novels.

But JK Rowling needn't have worried, because Harry Potter fans have reacted in an overwhelmingly positive way to the news that Professor Dumbledore was secretly gay all along, with Harry Potter lovers storming the internet to praise JK Rowling's brave move. And, now that her revelations about gay Dumbledore have rekindled the dying embers of Harry Potter mania, it's thought that JK Rowling will spend the next year strategically making other announcements about her Harry Potter characters to appeal to misrepresented communities. For instance, it'll soon be revealed that Bellatrix Lestrange is a ladyboy, Luna Lovegood is an Albanian emo and that the Weasley twins can only get sexually aroused by thoughts of their parents doing it.

It's incredible what can change in a decade, you know. When JK Rowling first started to write the initial Harry Potter novel, she was an impoverished single mother who just wanted to tell her story about an innocent young wizard going about his business at a magical school with moving stairs. Fast forward to today and JK Rowling is a bra-flashing jillionaire who writes book about relentless death starring a naked horse-mutilator and a gay old man. No wonder the Pope hates Harry Potter so much.

By now we all know that JK Rowling recently told the world that Harry Potter's headmaster Dumbledore was gay. At first, nobody knew how the world would react to this earth-shattering news that an elderly celibate fictional wizard may once have been in love with another equally fictional man - aside from Michael Gambon secretly vowing to make Dumbledore wear muscle-tops and eyeliner and have a new-found appreciation for Ugly Betty in the next Harry Potter movie - and yet the internet response from Harry Potter fans seems to be largely positive. Reuters reports:

"Mostly people are happy that she has done this," said Melissa Anelli, webmistress of the Leaky Cauldron site, admitting that the site has seen a small subset of vocal readers unhappy at the revelation. "I think it's great, I think the way she handled it was that this was just another fact about him, the same way that he's a teacher, he likes bowling, chamber music. And if more people were like that, we'd have less of a problem today." "To have one of the coolest, most respected wizards in history and mentor of Harry Potter as gay, is the bravest move JKR has ever made. I salute her," a fan identified as "Shain" wrote on the Leaky site.

And we have to admit that this 'Shain' person makes a very good point - it was exceptionally brave of JK Rowling to out Dumbledore as gay. Hopefully this new-found acceptance of homosexuals in the world of children's literature will kick down the doors of social change and allow other children's novelists to do exactly what JK Rowling has done and decide to tell the world that one of their comparatively peripheral characters is gay months after everyone's already paid for all the books in the first place and two and a half years after the character died anyway. That sure is some commendable bravery indeed.

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Most fans applaud Rowling's "outing" of Dumbledore - Reuters