[Non-Sequitur]

Where does it end? You say you read the entire series. So obviously there is nothing in the books themselves that triggered any sort of warning. Nothing Dumbledore did or said gave any indication. But suddenly the whole series is vile and evil, not because of what is in it, but because something said outside of the books.

Where does it end? First Rowling and then Capote and Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal? Do you ban your children from listening to Elton John? How about Tchaikovsky and Copeland? No "Nutcracker" or "Rodeo"? Do Disney's "Lion King" and "Fantasia" become prohibited? At what point does it become a danger?

[Antoninus]

Where does it end? First Rowling and then Capote and Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal? Do you ban your children from listening to Elton John? How about Tchaikovsky and Copeland? No "Nutcracker" or "Rodeo"? Do Disney's "Lion King" and "Fantasia" become prohibited? At what point does it become a danger?

It becomes a danger when an author/artist writes something ostensibly for children to read that inserts their pernicious, vulgar, and insipid worldview into my kids lives.

I've never read Tennessee Williams. All the works of Gore Vidal and Truman Capote could be accidentally dropped in the sewer and the world would be no poorer. Elton John is a hack who writes trite pop ditties that will be utterly forgotten in 50 years.

As for Copeland, he didn't come out and say later that he was in love with Billy the Kid, nor did Tchaikovsky rename his work Romeo and Julio.

If you can't see the difference between that and what Rowling did, I can't help you.

[Antoninus]

But suddenly the whole series is vile and evil, not because of what is in it, but because something said outside of the books.

Yes, something that was said by the author of the books concerning one of the main heroic characters--and this in a series that is ostensibly for kids to read. And now, the tiresome subject of homosexuality will be broached any time the series is discussed--especially in academic settings. They're already talking about using them as "teachable moments."

And it's not "suddenly". The moral sense of the books has been convoluted from day one and I've tried to point that out in my reviews when I saw it. Harry's incessant lying, his contempt for authority, his repeated dissing of his friends, his use of unforgivable "dark magic", his complete lack of remorse for bad acts he commits.

"Dumbledore is gay" is just the final straw, as far as I'm concerned.