Dean Thomas: Re: Well, don't want to upset the other list so I'll post here

[potioncat]

> Doddie:
> I dunno..this was no surprise to me..and secretly I'm kinda glad 
> that DD is gay seeing as one of her black characters (Dean Thomas) 
> had a father that ran out.(although not in the book....it also is 
> part of the realm that the "DD is gay" resides in..many in the 
black 
> community did not appreciate this aspect of one of Harry's 
> contemporaries--why Dean and not Seamus?!? Why does the black kids 
> father run out as opposed to the white so many proclaimed...perhaps 
> this is why the Lupin incident in DH?)...
> 


Potioncat:
This was one of the little moments in the book that really spoke to 
me. But it only works if you know the whole story---and most readers 
wouldn't. It's one of JKR's "what war does to families" moments.

JKR gave us some back story on Dean Thomas's family several years 
ago. It may be on her site, I'm not sure. Dean's mother didn't know 
he was a wizard. He was killed by DEs because he wouldn't join them. 
>From his wife's point of view, he just walked out. I'm not sure if 
his name was Thomas, or if Dean was given his step-father's name.