4) Doeth Red State protest too much?

1.) Only to those who wish to delve deeper into the "lives" of the characters she's created by asking her directly about the world she's created instead of choosing to make assumptions themselves.

2.) Responsibility to whom? If authors had to keep characters' private lives private then we'd have very few books to enjoy. This outing wasn't in the book, and the question was in response to someone who asked about Dumbledore's love life. If children can ask such questions, with the blessings of their parents, then they and their parents should be prepared for honest answers.

3.) Yes.

1.) Only to those who wish to delve deeper into the "lives" of the characters she's created by asking her directly about the world she's created instead of choosing to make assumptions themselves.

2.) Responsibility to whom? If authors had to keep characters' private lives private then we'd have very few books to enjoy. This outing wasn't in the book, and the question was in response to someone who asked about Dumbledore's love life. If children can ask such questions, with the blessings of their parents, then they and their parents should be prepared for honest answers.

3.) Yes.

Wait, how can you say she *outed* him when we don't even know that he was in the closet? Maybe the whole wizarding community knew his orientation but was enlightened enough that there was never any reason to call attention to it.

This is clear proof that we don't need to freak out at the idea of gays teaching our children --- our kids will be just fine!

Wait, how can you say she *outed* him when we don't even know that he was in the closet? Maybe the whole wizarding community knew his orientation but was enlightened enough that there was never any reason to call attention to it.

Pretty clearly not the whole wizarding community, given that Harry, Ron, and Hermione spent a fair amount of time in the last book looking closely at Dumbledore's connection to Grindelwald without the subject coming up. And while Harry is famously dense, so that everyone has to continually explain widely-known facts to him (and incidentally the reader) Hermione isn't.

I defer to people who actually went to British public schools, but from what I've heard about 'em the surprise is that anyone *doesn't* come out gay.

She had ten years and thousands of pages to reveal this bit. That she chose to conduct character development at a press conference months after the books ended is fat proof that she didn't have the ovarios to let Dumbledore come out when her paycheck was on the line.

Not with the story finished.
No.
Yes.