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Wow, I had no idea there were so many (minor) characters that we didn't learn about post HP7! Some, like Dean and Seamus always felt like fairly significant characters to me, so I was surprised to realize I didn't actually know what happened to them. Lots of research on HP fansites later, and I can't come up with much! I'll list all the characters I spent time on researching their post-HP7 life so we can amend whenever more facts are revealed. I primarily used the list of Dumbledore's Army members with a few notable Sytherins thrown in.Confirmed:Charlie Weasley is a confirmed lifelong bachelor.http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_WeasleyRubeus Hagrid is a confirmed bachelor and did not marry Madame Maxime.http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Rubeus_Hagridhttp://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-moreUnknowns:Seamus FinneganDean ThomasLee JordanSusan BonesErnie MacmillanJustin Finch-FletchleyAnthony GoldsteinPadma PatilParvati PatilKatie BellLavender BrownPansy ParkinsonMillicent BulstrodeGregory GoyleAlicia SpinnetZacharias SmithCormac McLaggenDennis CreeveyRomilda VaneMichael CornerTerry BootSide facts I didn't know:Cho Chang marries a muggle.Draco Malfoy marries someone named Astoria Greengrass, whom I don't recall at all.

The characters that we *know* are black are Angelina Johnson, Dean Thomas, Lee Jordan, Kingsley and the Zabini family. In all cases we are told either that they are black or that they have dark skin, and in addition there's a drawing Rowling did of Dean which clearly shows him as black with cropped Afro hair (Lee iirc has dreadlocks). Plus we have at least two presumably Indian- or Pakistani-origin students (the Patil twins), at least one presumed Jew (Anthony Goldstein) and Cho Chang.In addition, there are a lot of characters whose ethnicity isn't specified. If we leave aside the rare possibility of albino or red haired people of African or Asian descent, because they're statistically unlikely in such a small population. then any character who hasn't been specified as having pale skin, hair or eyes potentially *could* be black. The early films have a black Lavender, for example, and there's nothing against this in the books. All we know about Lavender's appearance is that she has a wide smile, and she can't be the absolute black you sometimes see in people from the equator, because you can tell from a distance whether she is blushing, That aside, she could be anything you like.It's easier to say who *isn't* black. Not Snape, Sirius or Madame Pince (all have pale skin). Not the Dumbledores (red or blond hair, blue eyes) or any other character specified as red or blond - the Weasleys, the Lovegoods, the Malfoys, the Delacours, Slughorn, Seamus, Ollivander. Not Remus because he has light brown hair. Probably not Minerva, just because the fact that she's meant to be the daughter of a Protestant Scottish minister, but has an Irish Catholic surname, means that her back story must already be so complicated that to make her black as well would sound contrived.Probably not Hooch because she has yellow eyes, and in real life yellow eyes are very rare but they do occur, and seem to do so only in redheads. However, if you assume that the yellow eyes have some kind of magical origin, I don't think we're told anything else about her colouring, and a really dark skin with yellow eyes would look fabulous. I don't think we know anything about Grubbly-Plank's colouring except that her hair has gone grey.Black Hermione is problematic because in the books she has brown hair and her face is repeatedly described as white or pale when she is scared, but she could certainly be mixed race, and it would fit beautifully with the bushy hair. Pomona Sprout is possible but she was based on a real person (the sculptor Phyllis Lewis) who was very proud of being the model for Sprout, and was white, and is dead, so it would seem disrespectful to remove her from her original.I don't think there's anything in the text against James being black, so long as Harry is pale enough to have green eyes and to look white when scared. Rowling says Harry looks like her current husband, who is a kind of Mediterranean light brown.Hagrid - yeah, maybe, but to make a confused, childlike drunk black might be seen as playing into nasty racial stereotypes. Tom - I don't think we're told what colour he is but he's unlikely to be anything other than white because of his rural village origin. Not Scrimgeour because he has lion-coloured hair, not Umbridge because her hair is mousy brown, but I don't think we're told what colour Fudge is, or many of the Ministry staff. Iirc Barty Crouch Jnr was blond which means his dad was most likely white too, but I don't think we have anything to say Moody couldn't be black. His artificial eye is blue, but I don't think we're told what colour the real one is.Among the major characters at Hogwarts, my money would be on Flitwick and Pomfrey. Poppy Pomfrey is especially suited to being a major black character because we're told nothing about her colouration, and a high proportion of black Britons are descended from migrants who came here from the Caribbean in the mid 20th C in response to an NHS recruitment drive. So then you could say she's Muggle-born, her parents came in on the Windrush in 1948 to work for the NHS, she always wanted to be a nurse like her mum, and finding out that she was a witch didn't change that.Stop Press: as at the end of August 2016 Rowling has just published an article about Dumbledore's Army, supposedly written by Rita Skeeter, which implies that Poppy Pomfrey retires in 2014. Age-wise, that would fit quite well with her being a Windrush baby, possibly born in the Caribbean some time in the 1940s and arriving in Britain with her parents rather than being born after they arrived. The same article refers to Rolf Scamander as “swarthy”, which may well mean that his grandfather Newt married somebody with dark skin.

the play that shall not be namedthe constant backtracking and claiming that the series was more diverse than it was. Earlier, she had stated that she DIDNT include religion, thus, no religious characters. Later she claimed that Anthony Goldstein was JEWISH. When the play came out and people were upset at Hermione being black, instead of telling people to get over it, she claimed that she never stated that Hermione WASNT black despite the fact that she described dean Thomas, lee Jordan, Angelina Johnson, etc as black. She also drew Hermione as white in one of her earlier drawings, described Hermione as being pale and flushing red when she was embarrassed, AND had a say in who played Hermione in the moviesthe way that she allowed the movies to mess up her characters.