Invisible minorities

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No: HPFGUIDX 78968

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" <quigonginger at y...> 
wrote:
> 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.

What odds would you give that Prof. Sinistra is left-handed?
You may have a moment of glory yet.

Kneasy