Artistic Licence: Living with lists

Last month, when JK Rowling revealed that Dumbledore, her wise wizard from the Harry Potter novels, was gay, New York magazine and Radar magazine, two of America’s most zeitgeisty publications, began work on a couple of articles.

The first was predictable - a report on the great Hogwarts headmaster, examining this new facet of his character and Rowling’s revelation that he had been in love as a youth with his great rival Gellart ...