Lavender Brown, dead or alive? If alive is she a now a werewolf?

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192395


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>

> Bart:
>      Based on experience in several subcultures, very often being a
> member of the subculture reaches a stage where a fellow member of that
> subculture just is a member, and little details like what is commonly
> called "race" become irrelevant. I recall frequently visiting the home
> of a friend, where there were a lot of similarly minded people from the
> same town frequently visiting as well. I had a consulting job in a
> nearby town, and one of the employees mentioned that she was thinking of
> moving closer to work. I recommended my friend's town, and she gave me a
> very funny look, and told me that she probably wouldn't want to live
> there. Another co-worker told me why: apparently, the town was primarily
> populated African-Americans. It was not until that moment that it
> occurred to me that, over the years, about 80% of the people who
> frequented my friend's house were also of African descent.
>
>      Therefore, especially in the sparsely populated WW (there have been
> previous discussions about the sized of the wizarding population,
> leading to my repeating my oft-used line, "There are three kinds of
> people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't." - JKR),
> matters like skin color and national origin just aren't terribly
> important, as long as you're a wizard/witch.
>
>      Bart



Thanks for that Bart.

I agree given a focal point in a common interest, viewpoint or shared cultural factor in a 'subculture' racial differences thankfully often cease to matter and what people share in common is far more important.

An obvious example being religion, which although it is often divisive and 'factional' (sadly all too often up to the point of horrendous violence) it does also show that people of different races are capable of sharing a common belief and coming together in peace, at least within a given 'sect' is possible.

I myself have personally experienced this. Whilst I was more 'actively' Pagan and a Druid (which I still am, only less intensely so) several years back I participated in several 'Open Ceremonies' in places as diverse as the great stone circle at Avebury, Wiltshire (which is so huge it surrounds part of the village and has the village pub at it's center), also Stonehenge (obviously) but among which were also included several urban venues, such as the brilliant, quirky and libertarian Conway Hall, in Red Lion Square, Central London.

Being of an 'interfaith' nature these gatherings often involved people of many differing creeds and spiritual viewpoints. In our Druid circles we all 'Swear By Peace And Love To Stand, Heart To Heart And Hand In Hand'. Would that all humanity could do the same!
Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).