[HPforGrownups] Classist Hogwarts (was ... was .... was...)

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 45555

Gulm Plum wrote in a discussion I'd love  to join but I've got hundreds of
pages to study before Monday and I can't afford to spend more than 5 minutes
on this:

<< what about Black Dean Thomas or Lee Jordan>>

 This bit of info is really new to me, does it say in the books both Dean
and Lee are black? Because I can't remember it. I never thought that
dreadlocks could be enough to assume that someone is black, when I read Lee
s description in Ps I simply thought he was just a hip teen of the Nineties!
 Or maybe  their names and surnames are tipically black?TMTMNBN, which I
know is as far from canon as possible, doesn't seem to place any black kid
in Harry's year ( but I only saw the movie once, so I may be wrong), while
there's a Black Lee, as both characters will be in every movie and possibly
become more important to the story I guess that JKR would have told clearly
to the casting people that they nedded a Black boy to play Dean and one to
play Lee.
R.