Harry Potter author JK Rowling outed her character Dumbledore in October. But now Rowling herself is coming out– against homophobia, which she describes as “a fear of people loving, more than it is of the sexual act.” Speaking to Student, Edinburgh University’s newspaper Rowling said:

There seems to be an innate distaste for the love involved, which I find absolutely extraordinary.The issue is love. It’s not about sex. So that’s what I knew about Dumbledore. And it’s relevant only in so much as he fell in love and was made an utter fool of by love.

The Vatican’s official newspaper criticized the Rowling for creating books in which “witchcraft is proposed as a positive ideal.” And some conservative Christians attempted to ban the books. In the same interview, Rowley reflected on her critics, saying,

Fundamentalism is, ‘I will not open my mind to look on your side of the argument at all. I won’t read it, I won’t look at it, I’m too frightened… That’s what’s dangerous about it, whether it be politically extreme, religiously extreme…. In fact, fundamentalists across all the major religions, if you put them in a room, they’d have bags in common! They hate all the same things, it’s such an ironic thing.

It’s times like these– when you want to get fundamentalists from different religions to sit in the same room and listen to each other and to other people– that magic really would come in handy. So, for now, against censorship, check out the American Library Association’s online action guide!