Black Dean Thomas and Lee Jordan (was Classist Hogwarts)
Jade
jadethe2nd at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 19 16:29:48 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 45564
>
> << 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.
Dean Thomas is indeed played by a black boy in TMTMNBN
(I found a picture at
http://www.nasubionna.net/hp/movie/mdeanportrait.jpg
). Aditionally, in the American version of PS/SS Dean
is described as 'a Black boy even taller than Ron'
(see
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/differences-ss.html
).
Since there isn't any evidence to the contrary (and
even though I've got the British versions of the books
myself) I see Dean as Black.
About Lee Jordan... I don't remember reading anything
about him being Black. Then again, I don't remember
reading anything that would contradict his being
Black. As you said, since he is Black in TMTMNBN and
JKR did have SOME influence over the casting process,
it is logical that JKR sees him as Black. However,
this evidence is definitely NOT conclusive.
Are there any other students who have been mentioned
as being Black?
Also, let's not forget Cho Chang and the Patil twins.
AFAIK, all evidence points to these people being
Asian, which in turn points to not all the students at
Hogwarts being white, or even British for that
matter...
Any other thoughts on the matter?
Jade :)
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