To clarify what I said earlier - race (quite long)

[pamscotland]

No: HPFGUIDX 40591

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "rosie" <crana at n...> wrote:
> I know I'm not very good at expressing things, but I thought of an 
analogy to what I was saying earlier, that it was (to my mind) 
insulting to just describe someone as black and assume that we now 
have a mental picture of them, etc.
 <snip>

Well done, Rosie, I think you've expressed this very well.  It 
certainly accords with my view of Hogwarts.

Incidentally, I didn't see the post that suggested black faces would 
be unusual in a Scottish boarding school.  Until 18 months ago there 
was a fee-paying boarding school in my town in the west of Scotland 
and the proportion of black, Asian, Oriental etc. etc. faces was 
probably a little higher amongst the boarders than in the population 
as a whole.  This was because children from all over the world were 
sent to school here by parents who could afford to pay the tuition 
and boarding fees.

There would have been no need to mention there was a black face at 
that school.

Pam