Poor Parvati Patil

A new Harry Potter movie is out. I haven't seen it, but I have been re-reading book number four. At that point, it looked like Harry might have yellow-fever. His first big crush was Cho Chang. Then he took Parvati Patil to the Yule-Tide Ball.

Poor Asian girls didn't make the cut, though. Harry wouldn't even dance with Parvati and eventually married redhead Ginny Weasley. Poor Asian girls. Pretty enough to kiss and date, but not to marry.

JOKING.

Mainly.

In more recent news, the September issue of Marie Claire is also exploring the phenomena of smart, talented (albeit non-magical) young Asian women pairing up with famous white men. Not that Cho Chang or Parvati Patil had much choice. There weren't any Asian boys in Harry Potter, were there?