Is Being a Wizard a Lifestyle Choice or is it Genetic?

Last weekend I was at a party where some drunk guy started trying to tell us that Albus Dumbledore was gay. Turns out he wasn't full of shit after all. Rowling actually said it. In fact it explains his relationship with Grindlewald rather well.

But the interesting thing is that now people are re-reading it as a theme of the whole series, a school in Chicago has banned outright all Harry Potter costumes (not just Dumbledore, the straight characters too) this Halloween.

"It’s school policy that students cannot wear any sexually suggestive costumes during Halloween," said officials at Trinity Lake’s Elementary School in Oak Brook, IL.

"We don’t want students promoting any sexual agenda, gay or straight" said school principal Tom Mannino, "so we’re preempting any issues parents or students might have and banning all Harry Potter costumes outright."

In a letter home to parents, Principal Mannino explained that, "Even though Dumbledore shows no outward signs of being gay, it’s important that we don’t allow other people’s lifestyle choices to be imposed upon our children."

I just love the symmetry, I guess this means that they'll ban every character who has ever been married, so as not to force the heterosexual lifestyle choice on anyone either.