Personally I thought it was ridiculous that she would try to reassert control over people's perception of a character in the book AFTER the book is out and complete. I think it should be left to the readers to make that kind of determination based on the story presented.

Totally agree with you Adam.

When I read the article I thought, "Give a fuck? No!"

I guess I am not sure how it matters. He is who he is and if you have read the books or the series - you will have decided what you think of Dumbledore - most likely you will have decided years ago what you think of Dumbledore. So I am not sure why it matters.
To me it seemed like an afterthought; that perhaps someone in the gay community challenged her and so she said, "well Dumbledore is gay."
Whatever-

Not that it affected my readings in any way, but if you refer to the actual instance of Rowling's revelation, she was attempting to keep the character within her own internal framework, not "reassert control over people's perception of a character in the book AFTER the book is out and complete."

She only made the revelation because of the films and a director's wanting to include something about a previous girlfriend of Dumbledore's and thus she brought another facet of Dumbledore's identity to light.

It was ridiculous I think she did it for the attention ... maybe she thought that press for the books was dying down and wanted to spice it up a little bit. But, why does it matter. I dont really care and plus is she not still going to get alot of publicity from the movies.

It did not concern me as much as the epilogue of this book. It was a total disaster.

I was at Carnegie Hall when she "outed" him. The places was full, as you can imagine, and not one person seemed disappointed. I laughed, screamed, applauded. It was great. Although one lady that got to ask her a question, with her daughter, said something about "having to explain what gay was" since the girl was six or seven. I don't think anything is wrong with that though.

In reading the transcript it looked like it was just a sidenote sort of thing, he wasn't tryng to make a big revelation, but of course many people here thought it was such a huge thing. She was just describing how she had always seen him in her mind and in interviews afterwards she comments about how surprised she was about the attention it was getting.

Publicity... She wanted to get people to pour over her books again trying to piece it all together.

personally, it thought it was pretty stupid, it wasnt a very pressing subject, I believe it was more of a rhetorical question, and telling us that just left the mystery out of it, but that's just one woman's opinion.