[HPforGrownups] Re: Dean Thomas

[LD]

No: HPFGUIDX 40296

Judy wrote:
>I'm frankly quite confused about Dean Thomas, and I'm wondering if 
>someone could clear it up.  Here is the US version of his 
>introduction.  After Harry sits down and looks at the High Table, the 
>next US passage reads: "And now there were only three people left to 
>be sorted.  'Thomas, Dean," a Black boy even taller than Ron, joined 
>Harry at the Gryffindor table."  This passage is rather flint-y: after 
>saying there were three more people to be sorted, it then mentions 
>*four* people: "Turpin, Lisa" and "Blaise, Zabini", as well as Dean 
>and Ron. 

As far as I can make out, the Ron thats mentioned in that short passage
is Ron Weasley, who had already been sorted by the time it was Dean's
turn. It's odd how they saw fit to explicitly spell out the fact that he
was black. Maybe I'm being overly cynical here, but perhaps Scholastic
thought they needed to make sure that the Potterverse represented a
diverse cross-section of humanity, and doesn't discriminate against
anyone. I'm surprised they didn't add "Turpin, Lisa was next, a disabled
girl in a Wheelchair. She didn't need to sit on the stool, because she's
always sitting down. Because she's disabled. And having disabled people
is good, and means we can't be seen as evil. Yep."

>
>Judy, on a roll
>

-LD, who is now off to search for cannons for that new garbage scour
thingy