CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 7, The Sorting Hat

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 188053

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> I don't believe that Dean is  mentioned in this chapter by name. 
> I also seem to recall that the fact that he is a black 
> Londoner was information given verbally by JKR.


zanooda:

Dean is not mentioned at all in the British edition, but in the American edition he is referred to as "a black boy even taller than Ron" :-). I agree with you about Lee, though - IIRC, he is never actually called "black" in the books. It's just his suggestive dreadlocks that are mentioned :-).