A Bloke’s Blog

Rowling has revealed that the Dumbledore character from her ‘Harry Potter’ series is a homosexual. My immediate suspicion and skeptical response was that this was a marketing stunt.

I advocate a broad cannon of reading and support the inclusion of fiction that does not conform, confirm, ratify or defend my own world view. I do not agree with or support the opinion that ‘Harry Potter’ should be avoided, banned and excluded from children’s libraries. Fantasy literature plays an important role in developing imagination and creativity - aspects in which we have an opportunity to demonstrate our capacity for re-creation after the creators image. (i.e. we will never “create” something out of nothing but we can re-create, redesign, mold, build, invent etc).

Although the last novel, ‘Deathly Hallows’ deals with details of Dumbledore’s past in so far as it contributes to the ‘Harry Potter’ mythology, no defense or judgement is made against his personal preferences in the area of sexuality. Enough has been written on the bildungsroman qualities of the ‘Potter’ series so it is not worth revisiting.