because everyone else is talking about it...

this is for the Potter-heads in my readership (all 4 of you that i know of)...

i heard today from a student today that Dumbledore had been outed by his author as a homosexual. this is not a spoiler because it is an irelevant contextualization. this was revealed well after the stories were published and released, and only came about because some insightful reader asked Rowling if Albus Dumbledore ever found true love. if anything, this charges [spoiler] Dumbledore's defeat and imprisonment of Grindelwald [/spoiler] with significance hitherto unforeseen.

naturally, there has been an outpouring of crazy from both ends of the spectrum (e.g. "you ruined Harry Potter for me and now i can't imagine Dumbledore without visualizing him with another man"). in the midst of the crazy, one voice piped up to lay down some fine editorializing. yes, you can all have opinions, but there is a certain level of decorum expected when you express them, especially in a public forum. so i uphold the linked article (mild spoilers) as a model of expressing an opinion in a decorous and well-reasoned manner.

research is a great cure for unsubstantiated ranting and raving.