Caribbean

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6960

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, wren lanier <wren at t...> wrote:
> 
> if he's not black, that would place Lee [Jordan] in the white-boy 
> hemp-wearing stoner-deadhead-reggae crowd, (snip)
> i kind of like imagining him with long blond, dirty dreadlocks with
> some beads on a hemp rope around his neck under his robes, but 
> thats just my fancy.

That's more or less how I imagined Lee when I read mention of the 
dreadlocks in Book 1. But Book 4 specifically describes him as 
black. I have often heard it said that assuming that a character 
is white when their color is not stated is an act of racism, so I 
feel properly guilty. On another hand, one of the questions on 
Ellie's Mary Sue quiz was "Is the character the same race as you?" 
Isn't that called 'writing about what you know'?