JK Rowling, an anti-American? + ADMIN NOTE

[Beata Wai Ieng Ho Deitrick]

No: HPFGUIDX 132630

Adi wrote: 
It's one thing  not to include American characters in the books(no
problems with Bulgarian or French) or to disallow any American actors
from acting in the movies not even as extras (no problems with
American producers  producing the movies and American money can
funding them ), but isn't it going to the extreme not to give chance
to American kids to interview J.K.Rowling? 


Beata (me): 
I don't think that JK Rowling was trying to discriminate on purpose. 
There aren't American characters because Hogwarts is a British school.
 Rowling has said that she isn't going to throw in multi-cultural
characters just for the sake of it because it doesn't make sense. 
Hogwarts is a British school and therefore will be dominately British.
 There were Bulgarian and French characters because they served a
specific purpose and came from, specificalyl, Bulgaria and France. 
Even if we were to argue that JK Rowling could have put an American
school it, one could also argue that she could have put a Chinese
school in, or what about Africa.  It's just that she picked Bulgaria
and France (either with or without reason) and so that's how it ended
up.


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