[HPforGrownups] Black Dean Thomas and Lee Jordan (was Classist Hogwarts)

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No: HPFGUIDX 45569



Jade:
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
).

Me:
I told that I might have been wrong about the movie, and so I was.

Jade:
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.


Me: 
But why do you? It's because of the movie or at the time of your first
reading of PS ( which,, however, I don't know if it came beore the movie or
not) you had  the feeling that Dean was Black? It's ths that I'm most
curious about, if from the little that it's known about Dean ( and Lee) one
can safely assume that he's black. Again, i say that I don't recall anything
pointing at their 'race', but maybe it's just my bad memory.


Jade:
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?


Me:
I had the impression that the ' racial' compositon of the school population
is made to mirror UK's one; you see at Hogwarts what you see walking the
streets in any magior british city: Blacks, Indians, Chineses, Irish. I'd
love to be introduced to some Italian witch; we are just everywhere, there's
not a country I've been to where I haven't found some and we've got a
tradition of emigrants to the Uk.

R.- who's wishing for a little Russo witch or Proietti wizard to enter Hogwarts.