POA "actor"

[Carol]

bboyminn:
> 
> '...Kid who can't act', could you be a little more specific?
> Others seem to have grasped who you mean, but I haven't got a
> clue -- Male/Female? Black/white? Blond/Brown/black/red hair?
> 
> It could be Dean Thomas, who is now a tall thin black boy,
> who has been give a few minor lines in each movie.
> (Alfred Enoch - who I like)
> 
> It could be Susan Bones, who is really Chris Columbus's daughter.
(Eleanor Columbus)
> 
> It could be the curly headed black boy who originally played Lee
Jordan, the Quidditch announcer. (Luke Youngblood)

Carol responds:
I think they're referring to Ekow Quartey (Boy 1), who had the line
about catching Sirius Black being like catching smoke with your bare
hands. I think people are annoyed that his lines were assigned to an
anonymous character instead of, say, Lavender Brown or Seamus
Finnigan--someone that we can recognize as a Gryffindor, preferably in
Harry's year. I've read that Ekow won the part through a contest, but
I don't know whether it's true. He has his own IMDb board and one
poster claims to be the real Ekow (as in "if u wnt 2 knw who i really
am just reply to this message and maybe we can talk. dnt wrry i am the
real Ekow quartey." Someone else on the board told him that he needed
to improve his typing skills, whether he's the real Ekow or not. I
agree. And if that kid is the real Ekow and he won an *essay-writing*
contest, the world is in real trouble! :-) )

Carol, who found the prominence of an unnamed, unknown character
mildly annoying but less so than the shrunken heads, Muggle clothes,
(magically powered?) "electric" trains and Victrolas, and unwolflike
appearance of Werewolf!Lupin