MOVIE and VF: Whew!

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong at p...> wrote:
> At 05:43 PM 09/10/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >Quiddich photo -- someone restrain me!  There are two black girls 
on
> >the team, and I thought it was only one.  Yippee!  More racial
> >diversity never hurts -- was this done for the movie, or did JKR 
say
> >somewhere in canon that Alicia Spinnet is black?  Oliver Wood 
should
> >be a lot bigger, though.  Heck, I could get a quaffle past that
> >little wisp of a thing.  And for once, Harry isn't smiling!
> 
> I don't think she's black....I think she's of Middle Eastern/Indian 
> descent. Also....I wonder if Padma and Pavarti are of such a 
descent as well.
> 

I think the Patils would be Pakistani. Patil is a very common name in 
Pakistan, kind of like Jones is in Wales.

I can't wait to see the actresses who play them!


--Suzanne