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Harry Potter author outs wizard as "gay".(Inside Track)(J.K. Rowling)(Brief article)

The New American

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Professor Albus Dumbledore, the wise wizard and headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has become a hero to millions of fans of the Harry Potter books and films. So when British author J.K. Rowling, creator of the hugely popular Harry Potter series, informed an audience on October 19 at Carnegie Hall in New York City that she had always viewed her fictional character Dumbledore as being homosexual, a firestorm of controversy erupted. Many of her readers were naturally shocked since they had not detected any "gayness" in Dumbledore. Also not surprising, liberal and openly homosexual media commentators celebrated the "outing" as a ...

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