Invisible minorities

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 78963

Recent threads have gotten me thinking.

I am a member of an invisible minority.  We are about 10% of the 
population, and are found throughout all religions, cultures, and 
nationalities.  Some have tried to change us and make us "normal", 
but that has toned down in the last generation.  I have found no 
mention of any of us in HP.  In fact, there is only one person who is 
stated as being in the majority.  

I have always read by putting myself in the position of the 
characters.  So, to me, they are all like me unless the text 
specificly states otherwise.  So, by my calculations, there should be 
between 28 and 100 (depending on your estimate of the student body) 
people at Hogwarts, and another 106 on the list who are like me.  

No one that I have seen has made a big deal out of the lack of my 
people in the books.  In fact, in the realm of literature, it is only 
brought up if it is crucial to the plot or of the author is one of us.

So what do y'all think?  Is there a reason that not one of the 
characters in Harry Potter has been distinguished as being left-
handed?

My point here:  we all see things from our own perspective.  We all 
look for ourselves in books.  If we have something that is different 
from the norm, (by that I mean the *statistical* majority) we look 
for it specificly.  Because that is who we are, and how we see 
ourselves and our relation to the characters.

Ginger, who hates manual can openers.  Try it left-handed sometime!
BTW, I would be so sad if Harry and Bill ended up together.  It would 
kill my Bill/Remus ship.