This past Friday morning, at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling announced to an audience of 1,600 students that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay ," at which point those in attendance reportedly fell silent before erupting into extended applause. But gay Harry Potter fan and University of California, Berkeley senior Louis Peitzman has mixed feelings. In an op-ed piece for the Daily Californian, he writes, "[J.K. Rowling has] managed to make history without actually doing anything . As an author, she’s unique in the way she continues to add to her story after the fact. But that’s just it. Saying it now doesn’t change the way it was written. Dumbledore is gay, not because he sleeps with men, but because the author says so, and we have to take her word for it." Click here to hear Peitzman interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation.