So it's old news by now, but J.K. Rowling outed her character Dumbledore as being gay: (read the CNN article) While the Harry Potter books fall more in the realm of fantasy vs science fiction, I thought this news was worthy of notice. There's a huge group of people who don't just read Harry Potter, they obsess about the Harry Potter world. They learn every little detail of the books. I remember an interview after the release of the movie in which Hermoine is wearing a dress to go to a ball. One of the young fans being interviewed was very disappointed that the color of the dress in the movie was different from that of the book. And let's face it, it was some young fan asking questions about Dumbledore's love life that prompted the author to out him.
So will this change anything for anyone? It would be interesting if someone documented the lives of 'super fans' and saw how the events of the Harry Potter industry impacted their lives ten years or twenty years from now. And what about those kids who have already been taught that the teachings of Harry Potter are evil. What will they be like as adults? Is Harry Potter forming a generation? Generation X, Generation Y, and soon... Generation P? Will one day the far extremes of Generation P be arguing across the senate floor? What will they have to say to each other and will we be able to to trace it back to the Harry years?
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