Dean Thomas - nitpicks on West Ham

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Catherine Coleman <catherine at c...> wrote:

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> I am therefore interested in why people assumed this.  Or was it a 
case 
> of knowing Dean's ethnicity from either the American edition or the 
film 
> and working backwards?

I've been away for over a week and am only just catching up on 
messages (backwards, I might add).

AFAIK, I'm the one with whom you're taking issue, as I'm the one who 
raised this subject a couple of weeks ago (after which it degenerated 
into an UK -v- US editions debate). (Sorry, I can't find the message 
#.)

Just to clarify: I never suggested that Dean is black because he's a 
West Ham supporter. I got his ethnicity from the US edition. I then 
went on to speculate that *if* he's a local supporter, he's unlikely 
to be wealthy (I don't think anyone would *choose* to live in Newham 
if they had an option).

I then made another leap to suggest that, in particular because we 
know nothing about his parentage (whereas we not only know about 
Harry's other friends' parents but have even met them all!), he may 
not have any, which made me suspect that he may have been raised in 
an orphanage.

As it happens, his ethnicity isn't directly relevant to my 
thesis/speculation; it's just something we know.