Current Events > One Jewish character in the Harry Potter series

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No, there's....I'm not falling for this.

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Token Chinese girl Cho Chang.

Token Indian twin Parvati and Padma(?) Patel.

As soon as she sees this topic, she'll retroactively declare a character Jewish, don't worry.

Funnily enough, some fanfiction writers do like to make Harry Indian with the idea usually being that the Potters immigrated from India a couple generations back. Actually works reasonably well because it adds a dimension of racism towards the Dursleys' treatment to him.

But then aunt petunia would be Indian

the idea usually being that the Potters immigrated from India

"Hagrid was really a Sikh it just never came up. Hence the uncut hair."

Of course that's before he passed away in a Singaporean hotel room due to a mishap with his auto-erotic asphyxiation fetish, a detail so masterfully hidden on her writing only three people have been able to follow the narrative threads to her explanation.

Uh

Pottermore goes pretty hard

Funnily enough, some fanfiction writers do like to make Harry Indian with the idea usually being that the Potters immigrated from India a couple generations back. Actually works reasonably well because it adds a dimension of racism towards the Dursleys' treatment to him.

That doesn't make sense though as the Potters are descended from the Peverells, meaning they've been British for a long damn time.

Literally a real name

I mean I know Jewish people irl named Goldman and Finkelstein

You do understand that British people can marry immigrants, right?

Only Irish kid in the school is obsessed with explosives

To be fair's it's set in the UK where the Jewish population is like 260,000 people.

JK Rowling stated that there are only 3,000 wizards in the UK. That's 0.005% of the 60,000,000 population.

0.005% of 260,000 is like 13 people. And how many of those 13 are going to be Hogwarts age?

There really aren't going to be many Jewish Wizards in Harry Potter just out of simple numbers.

In America there are 7.5 Million Jews so there should be about 375 wizards.

With that small a population...there has to be a FUCKLOAD of incest for there to be many legit "purebloods"

Though to be fair it's stated and implied that many of them are in denail or outright lying about it and they explicitly acknowledge there was some inbreeding with some families like the Gaunt's.

Just declare batshit things to be canon.

With that small a population...there has to be a FUCKLOAD of incest for there to be many legit "purebloods"

I think there probably is some implied inbreeding. I also would assume some of the "purebloods" are actually half bloods and lying.

"Hagrid was really a Sikh it just never came up. Hence the uncut hair."