[HPforGrownups] Re: Least Fave Characters

[Michelle Apostolides]

No: HPFGUIDX 19554

  Perhaps, like many Englishmen, JKR just doesn't
> think much of foreigners, and it shows in her writing.  I mean that
> literally;  she doesn't put much thought into them.

I have to correct you there. JKR probably has a greater understanding of
different cultures for two reasons.

1 ) She studied and speaks fluent French - which you can't do unless you
understand the people and culture.

2 ) She lived and taught English in Portugal. She also taught EFL in
this country.

I accept that most English people have no idea of anything other than
Englishness but we aren't all like that.

Michelle