Invisible minorities

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 79039

<<<"quigonginger" wrote...We are about 10% of the population...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?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

10%? That's all? So Harry is right-handed (probably to further 
indicate how incredibly average he is), but how about Ron for a 
lefty, or for sure one of the twins? Fred, I'd say. He's the one I 
picked in a "which Weasley is gay?" poll because he seems a little 
more caustic than George. Then there's Aberforth Dumbledore (who I 
bet we'll see a lot more of) and of course, Luna and Tonks. I read 
somewhere that the one surest cause of stuttering in a child absent 
neurological damage is forcing handedness. And when I was a kid 
trying to acquire hep handicaps, I found that you do everything 
mirror when you let your 'other' hand do its thing. Maybe Neville is 
a natural lefty forced into opposite handedness as a function of a 
Memory Charm or some other plot point. Suppose, when he gets his own 
wand, Ollivander fits him as a lefty?

Not as much fun as the "who's gay" brouhaha, but a good one with a 
lot of promise!

--JDR