Re: No blacks in Harry Potter...hhmmm.

Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:57:07 GMT, jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(John Savard) wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:22:29 -0700, Shadowland <saints2060@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote, in part:

Not very "diverse" of you is it ?

Britain isn't the United States. It's East Indians who might be
conspicuously missing from those books...

Except they very much aren't.

I discovered that after reading more of the thread.

I did read the first book of the series, and put down the second about
half-way through, though.

Of course, these books present such racial stereotypes of the British,
it might have been just as well to leave minorities out of them.

John Savard

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