Does anyone else think Padma and Seamus seem unusually worried about him? They must have come up with one hell of a fake challenge, if his absence has got them this worried. And what does it have to do with Milland (Snape)?
I assumed Sikh cause I seem to remember she talked about her older brother and his learning to tie a turban at about 12. While I had seen some other more commonly Hindu comments, that one stuck in my head last night when trying to decide which religion I thought she was.
Ok, although here in the UK I've known Sikh / Hindu families who've intermarried so it didn't read that strangely to me. Sikhism has some distant Hindu roots, and my previous boss was a devout Hindu woman who found nothing incompatible in her marriage to a Sikh.
Right - and there are occasions when turbans are appropriate / part of traditional dress whether Sikh or Hindu... Plus it was (I think) largely early in the evolution of the character.
If you look at the body of her discussion of her family, though, she consistently talks about Hindu religious practices and the family's Kshatriyan heritage. So.
I guess in the UK the majority of the Sikh men I meet still place great importance on the wearing of the turban, which they always do and Sikh boys are expected to tie the full turban by reaching their teens. So the boys I taught at secondary school would be wearing the full turban. So to me a turban is essential to a Sikh, and worn at weddings and the like by a Hindu. I understand that far less Sikh men wear turbans today in the US so it may be a distinction that is less obvious there. Their right to do so is enshrined in many of our laws, such as an exemption from having to wear a motorcycle helmet. And the military have recently had to back down on a 20 year ban on such headwear.
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I'm finding the discussion of and demonizing of her character really interesting, by the way! She's not a psychopath, good or otherwise.
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I assumed Sikh cause I seem to remember she talked about her older brother and his learning to tie a turban at about 12. While I had seen some other more commonly Hindu comments, that one stuck in my head last night when trying to decide which religion I thought she was.
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Early player error?
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If you look at the body of her discussion of her family, though, she consistently talks about Hindu religious practices and the family's Kshatriyan heritage. So.
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I understand that far less Sikh men wear turbans today in the US so it may be a distinction that is less obvious there.
Their right to do so is enshrined in many of our laws, such as an exemption from having to wear a motorcycle helmet. And the military have recently had to back down on a 20 year ban on such headwear.
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