With the recent announcement from JK Rowling that Albus Dumbledore is, in fact, gay, members of the fandom have been expressing their opinions on the subject through blogs and statements. Matt from The Whomping Willows wrote, “I think the bottom line is that Dumbledore’s sexuality is just a part of his personal being. It’s obviously significant in how he dealt with Grindelwald, but it doesn’t necessarily have any bearing in how he dealt with Harry, Snape, Remus, Draco, Hermione, Hagrid, or anyone else. If we want to spend time analyzing Rowling’s political and social intent — well, she’s confirmed that one of her goals with HP is to promote tolerance.” Read the rest here.

A few days later he followed up with another blog in response to fans being angered over this information. He says, “If you believe that Dumbledore’s being gay would lead him to think about/desire/pursue a sexual relationship with Harry during Harry’s years at Hogwarts, then I seriously don’t want you to support my band. I don’t want your money. I don’t want your myspace plays or page hits. I don’t want anything to do with you until you clean up your act.” More of the entry can be found here.

According to Creevey Crisis, “It’s a non-issue,” and Tina (of DJ Luna Lovegood) wrote in her blog, “i am 100 percent in believing that people should love whoever and however they want (as long as it’s consensual adults.)”

Meanwhile, Andrew Slack of the HP Alliance has written a number of blog entries as well as providing a bit of humor to the LA Times in their article “Seven clues that ‘Potter’s’ Dumbledore was gay.” He concluded one blog entry like this, “It’s almost hilarious to hear Bill O’Riley suggest that JK Rowling has an agenda where she is encouraging children to be homosexuals. JK Rowling, it seems to me has an objective…and it to encourage children, to encourage all of us, to be ourselves. Thank you Ms. Rowling. And thank you Albus Dumbledore.”