The revelation by author JK Rowling that the wizard Dumbledore is gay has journalists (and, it should be said, some parents and activists groups) in a tizzy. But Rowling’s young readers seem to have taken the news in stride. Rowling herself described the revelation of Dumbledore’s sexuality as “freeing.” “He’s my character,” she asserted. “I have the right to know what I know about him and say what I say about him.”