Harry Potter Books- Positiive views on Interracial Couples

I was not sure where to put this topic.

Who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the movies? In book the books and the moives, she has two popular characters dating interracially. (one white female/black male and one white male/black female)She also has the series ending with a black man (he was the guy who picked up Harry from his relatives house in the movie that is now out) being the Minister of Magic. (Guy in charge of the government in wizarding Great Britian).

I for one am glad that she does this. Millions have brought her books and the proceeds have literally given her her moeny than the queen of England. Will kids growing up by the millions reading that interracial relationships are a typical part of the greater society, hopefully one day people can speak freely about their dating preferences on ANY board.

 

Um, to be honest with you I hardly remember seeing any black people at all in the Harry Potter movies that were "main character". Maybe like the black announcer girl or the black boy that randomly pops up. I don't understand it, but you don't see much color in the Harry Potter series. Except the previous movie that came out when they were going to some prom and one of the white guy friends of Harry through something at a black girl to get her attention and he asked her out and she said yes. That's about it. If anything having to do with interracial dating it'd be between Harry and the asian girl. That's about it.

 

I saw Hairspray a couple of weekends ago with my 11 yr old daughter. It has a strong IR theme running thru it, and also deals quite a bit with segregation and integration. I thought the movie was well done, my daughter loved it.

Amanda Bynes plays the girl who falls for 'Seaweed' and I don't know who played that character. If I remember correctly they kiss on screen. I've heard Hairspray will be the Grease for a new generation - I hope so, it would be nice having a whole group of kids raised watching that movie.

 

lol well I don't really know what Hairspray has to do with Harry Potter but ok. And the original hairspray movie came out in 1988 with Ricki Lake as the main character. She did an awesome job. The movie is generally about breaking all boundaries and overcoming discrimination whether it's because of your race, gender, or according to the main character, weight. The recent one that just came out is a remake by the same director. It was very good. I enjoyed John Travolta and Queen Latifah the most. She did a great job. And Travolta had me hysterical the entire movie. But Amanda Bynes is a very pretty girl and naturally a funny actor. The director did right by chosing her and ELijah Kelley. Perfect match. However I have a feeling little teeny bopper girls will be paying more attention to Zac Efron for obvious reasons. :roll:

 

:lol: I am guilty of a thread hi-jack - sorry all!

John Travolta was soooo funny! I was in stitches after about every line he had - his delivery was perfect!

And judging from the posters in my kids room, you are right about Zac Efron - but he already had a huge following from High School Musical.

 

Ginny Weasley who is Ron's sister dates Dean a black student in the 5th and part of the sixth book. It was cut from the movie however. Fred Weasley Ron's brother dates Angelina a black girl and they go to the ball together in the Goblet of Fire, that was left in the movie. Th books have WAY more detail than the movies

 

I learn something everyday. I got to read the book.

 

I certainly remember the couples in Harry Potter you are talking about, bosoxlady.

About the "Hairspray" movie, i've seen it and it's great. The themes are very powerful and it deals with an issue so prevalent but shunned by the mainstream (read: whites), which is race. Basically, it strikes a chord that you don't have to fit the prototypical young, skinny, blonde white girl to be considered "pretty". John Travolta had me laughing my fucking head off as well as Queen Latifah.

Amanda Bynes did a great job in the movie too. She's really cute and it's amazing how much she's grown. By the way (because i know some guys here are thinking it), i read an interview of hers some time ago and she said that she's attracted to black guys and kissed a crush of hers (who was black) in high school.

 

wow I didn't know the author of the Harry Potter books mentioned race.

 

Yeah, she does mention race in the books. She's got a couple themes there...bw/wm, ww/bm and Asian/white. I don't mind the movie, but the books are a lot better.

 

I agree. My boyfriend and I took my daughter-16 to see it last weekend . Great movie.

For anyone interested here is the link for the movie
http://www.hairspraymovie.com/?engine=adwords!9302&keyword=%28hairspray+the+movie%29&match_type=

 

Wow, I didn't realize this was in Harry Potter. I've fallen so far behind in the series. I guess I should catch up and start watching the movies and reading the books!

 

Great bump, Mikey!

Yes, I like the fact that she has those themes running through the books.

And if you want to think about it in the abstract, a witch/wizard marrying a muggle could be considered IR, as would Tonks and Remus being together....

There is definitely an underlying theme about prejudice (Voldemort and the Death Eaters being anti-Muggle and anti-Mudblood) in these books and I think by showing the different types of people getting together, she's showing that it's okay to be in relationships of this nature. Which, as the OP has stated, should help people be more accepting and also be more willing to enter into IR.

 

Wow, that's a brilliant correlation Bookworm. I'll post some excerpts out of the book that I read which illustrates this and other concepts of IR. I'll start off by reading Year 1 of the book. I just realized the whole series is 8 books.

 

Actually there are 8 movies, but only 7 books. :-D

You don't have to type out excerpts. I think just paraphrasing the storylines would be good. :smt023

 

You don't remember it because they didn't have one. Brits think simply INCLUDING non-white is enough to speak volumes about racial equality.

A couple of bit parts is enough.

 

The books aren't meant to be about racial equality in the literal sense. That's not what the story is about. :smt023