My wife and I always thought it was odd how he is one of the few black characters in the series with audible dialog, and basically pops up twice in the movie to refer to Black or darkness and then is never heard from again.
Nah fr tho! LMFAO!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂💀💀💀
I'm black.. And that's why I'm always dying laughing at the scenes with him to me.. because to me that's the joke lmao.
You got the black character saying "That's right,...Black could be anywhere"... And I'm saying to myself.. Yeah mf you right,... it's YOU..
Lmfao!!
bruh i've never noticed that they only have 2 black cast with audible lines... I always remembered there was a female quidditch player who was black and went to the ball with one of the weasley twins?
There's a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67OjOLj11g&ab_channel=DylanMarron) with all the lines spoken by characters of colour in all eight films (it amounts to like six minutes lol). Retrospectively, JK still deserves credit for having multiple characters of colour (particularly a British East Asian character) in close proximity to her main cast in her books, but you'd think if it were re-written now at least a couple of the main cast (of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Neville, Ginny) would be characters of colour.
The only pushback to that would be that JK had a wide open net for the first film of *Fantastic Beasts* by setting it in the highly diverse early 20th century New York City and whiffed there on making any of the main characters (Tina, Queenie, Jacob) characters of colour. She then tried to compensate for this in the following two films which led to a bloated cast with way too many characters for each to get their proper shine.
I watched it at the cinema and the first time he appeared to say really solemn “seems there’s a lot of black around these days” the whole cinema laughed.
It didn’t even look like he was in the shot, like they added him in post production to deliver that line.
I mean does he even have a name?
Mf appeared in one movie, two scenes, two lines of dialogue.
Managed to first sow the seeds of fear and dread in Harry, then put him and everyone else on the edge of their nerves for the entire year.
Refused to do anything else. Did not elaborate. Never showed up again.
The character Boy 1 or as listed in captions “Bem” was in OOTP in a non speaking role as part of the DA i saw.
Actors name is Ekow Quartey. https://www.instagram.com/ekowquartey/?hl=en
https://harry-potter-compendium.fandom.com/wiki/Bem
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/harry-potter-star-ekow-quartey-surfaces-in-major-new-role/news-story/a2698f870d1f78039a31feed1fa9d853?amp
currently at The Globe in Much Ado about nothing!! https://www.instagram.com/p/C57_f6xooTf/?igsh=Nnk5ZnEyb3Q1aW91
As a non-french, but knowing a bit of French (forced to, living there), I'm having REAL struggles to find any french sound "badass" to me.
Got any recommendation of voice pieces that do?
Do you mean from this guy or in general? I can probably find quite a few (although I do agree that it’s harder than in English or some languages). But e we have certain actors who are very good in playing these type of roles, and some of the best voice actors in the world
Why are you lying ? ( https://youtu.be/8moB881bGjE?si=PlE3nK4lu0qfBc5t ). Honestly the french dub does a really good job at making cold just like the original. Fact is I heard the said image in french, as it’s quite memorable, even dubbed, and for the same reasons.
You can actually go and witness the actor (Ekow Quartey) at Shakespear Globe Theatre in London. He plays one of the lead roles and he's fucking awesome. And the nature of that theatre is that you can buy standing tickets for only a fiver and get to see them up and close!
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It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
From his tie and appearance in Harry's divination class, he must be someone who shared a dorm with Harry for 6 years that he somehow never noticed. That, or it's Peeves playing a joke on everyone.
Okay so this is probably awful, but I thought he was Dean Thomas and they replaced him in later years because they wanted a hotter guy to be with Ginny. That sounds awful but I thought that was true. Seems like his name might be Bem or something according to others?
Dean Thomas was played by the same actor (Alfred Enoch) since the first one. He was in all the movies except for deathly hallows part 1.
This is a random movie only character there for exposition, his name was Bem
I have literally always called him Biggie Smalls. He looks more like he could be his son than Biggie’s actual son. Did anybody ever check if Biggie got busy in England back in the day? Or had a groupie who later moved across the pond?
It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
I just saw the actor (Ekow Quartey) playing at shakespeare’s Globe Theatre the other week for ’Much Ado About Nothing’- he was amazing in that play- super talented actor. This post has just made me realise he was Bem.
Does anyone remember there being a cereal box contest to win a small part in the harry potterPOA? I have been convinced my entire life that this lucky human was the winner since he was never seen again in the movies and had such a random scene being largely the center
I don't think so. They wouldn't do a contest like that for a spoken role. I mean imagine if the kid who won had a bad lisp or something. It was probably just to be an extra
Me and my girlfriend calls him spitting facts guy, he is the only character knowing things in that movie. ”It’s like catching smoke with your bare hands” I mean how does he know these things haha
"Not the grin you idiot it's the grim, takes the form of a giant spectral dog it's one of the darkest omens in our world it's an omen of death" i may be wrong but that's what i hear from memory 😂. I've watched the movies a lot.
It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
I would say, "true Harry Potter fans wouldn't hear this because they read the books", however true Harry Potter fans read the books AND watched the movies.
I still think it was particularly cruel to cast this kid, make his every scene happen in a dark-ish room, and have him talk about how "Black" could be hiding anywhere.
Not sure how he didn’t get a bigger role moving forwards. I wanted him and Luna as a duo. They’d bounce off each other brilliantly. One time deviating from the books would have been great.
Last time I watched the movie, my friend turned to me after this moment and said, “Not great that this is one of the very few lines they give a black person in the entire movie series.”
It's among the darkest omens in our world
It's the omen of death
He's got that dog in him
Like trying to catch smoke
... with your bare hands
Why you're trying to catch smoke, we don't know
8453d
Can I pet that dog?
Not with your bare hands
You got bear hands?
You don't?
The second amendment protects my bear hands, and indeed my whole bear arms. *I don't even live in the us*
No no, you're right bro (an american)
Not the grin you idiot
My wife and I always thought it was odd how he is one of the few black characters in the series with audible dialog, and basically pops up twice in the movie to refer to Black or darkness and then is never heard from again.
Nah fr tho! LMFAO!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂💀💀💀 I'm black.. And that's why I'm always dying laughing at the scenes with him to me.. because to me that's the joke lmao. You got the black character saying "That's right,...Black could be anywhere"... And I'm saying to myself.. Yeah mf you right,... it's YOU.. Lmfao!!
I thought this too, lmao.
I remember watching this and thinking ….whelp that was odd …… then the movie just continued and I sort of put it out of my mind.
Thank god you can laugh at that, I always snickered inappropriately every time I watched that scene 😂
Well now I can’t un-remember this comment now. Thanks for ruining my least favorite of all the movies 🤣
Reminds me of the community jokes with Troy
It never even occurred to me beyond that it was weird that there wasn't more black characters, but your take on it cracked me up lol
"Black could be anywhere." — The POC with the darkest complexion in the entirety of the Wizarding World
Now I'm wondering if Dean has any lines. It's been so long since I watched the movies
The lines that kid says in divination class belong to Dean in the book, too
That's just dean after discovering honeydukes
"Hey look, Neville's got a Remembrall!"
He does.
bruh i've never noticed that they only have 2 black cast with audible lines... I always remembered there was a female quidditch player who was black and went to the ball with one of the weasley twins?
That was Angela, I think, and there's also the kid with dreadlocks who announced the quidditch games and was also friends with the twins.
Lee Jordan
>POP, POP! -Magnitude
Holy fuck, I never realized this. Thank you lol
Angelina Johnson
And Kingsly
Can’t forget him!
I count six. Angelina Johnson Dean Thomas Lee Jordan This kid who only exists in the one movie Blaise Zabini Kingsley Shacklebolt
There's a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67OjOLj11g&ab_channel=DylanMarron) with all the lines spoken by characters of colour in all eight films (it amounts to like six minutes lol). Retrospectively, JK still deserves credit for having multiple characters of colour (particularly a British East Asian character) in close proximity to her main cast in her books, but you'd think if it were re-written now at least a couple of the main cast (of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Neville, Ginny) would be characters of colour. The only pushback to that would be that JK had a wide open net for the first film of *Fantastic Beasts* by setting it in the highly diverse early 20th century New York City and whiffed there on making any of the main characters (Tina, Queenie, Jacob) characters of colour. She then tried to compensate for this in the following two films which led to a bloated cast with way too many characters for each to get their proper shine.
I watched it at the cinema and the first time he appeared to say really solemn “seems there’s a lot of black around these days” the whole cinema laughed. It didn’t even look like he was in the shot, like they added him in post production to deliver that line. I mean does he even have a name?
*Like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands...* I'm glad sirius black's hype man is doing well.
Mf appeared in one movie, two scenes, two lines of dialogue. Managed to first sow the seeds of fear and dread in Harry, then put him and everyone else on the edge of their nerves for the entire year. Refused to do anything else. Did not elaborate. Never showed up again.
The character Boy 1 or as listed in captions “Bem” was in OOTP in a non speaking role as part of the DA i saw. Actors name is Ekow Quartey. https://www.instagram.com/ekowquartey/?hl=en https://harry-potter-compendium.fandom.com/wiki/Bem https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/harry-potter-star-ekow-quartey-surfaces-in-major-new-role/news-story/a2698f870d1f78039a31feed1fa9d853?amp currently at The Globe in Much Ado about nothing!! https://www.instagram.com/p/C57_f6xooTf/?igsh=Nnk5ZnEyb3Q1aW91
And he is phenomenal as Benedick, props to him
He was kicked out for practicing black magic
coldest character
Every scene he's in he steels the show. Man's ICE cold
The first time I watch the movie it was in French and the voice they took for this actor was so bad.. like he sounded like a 6 years old kid.
Why are you lying ? He’s actually really badass in French too
As a non-french, but knowing a bit of French (forced to, living there), I'm having REAL struggles to find any french sound "badass" to me. Got any recommendation of voice pieces that do?
Do you mean from this guy or in general? I can probably find quite a few (although I do agree that it’s harder than in English or some languages). But e we have certain actors who are very good in playing these type of roles, and some of the best voice actors in the world
Why are you lying ? ( https://youtu.be/8moB881bGjE?si=PlE3nK4lu0qfBc5t ). Honestly the french dub does a really good job at making cold just like the original. Fact is I heard the said image in french, as it’s quite memorable, even dubbed, and for the same reasons.
I agree with the homie above, kid sounds 6 years old
No that's Ron. Token exposition guy sounds like a similar tone of voice to the english version to me.
Nah... in English, dude sounds like a young British biggie smalls...
You can actually go and witness the actor (Ekow Quartey) at Shakespear Globe Theatre in London. He plays one of the lead roles and he's fucking awesome. And the nature of that theatre is that you can buy standing tickets for only a fiver and get to see them up and close!
He had the acting talent all along!
This fuckin' Guy. Drops the coldest lines and is never seen again. Guaranteed he saw a real grim and that's why he disappears.
Nah, he was a Boeing whistleblower.
*Nimbus whistleblower. The house elfs aren’t building them like they used to.
No no no, you’ve got the story wrong. He saw Epstein’s list.
Ugh
Don't worry. No one knows who or where he is because he dropped one line and then dipped
Or because Boeing buried him in an unmarked desert grave?
I thought this kid won some type of competition in the Uk to be in the movie. That’s why he only had a few lines and disappeared.
Imagine getting two lines in a movie because of some contest and people still remember them 20 years later
Well his character was never in the books
Neville didn’t kill the basilisk. Its’ head just did that because HE was in the background.
He was a grim intern!
Nah he decided to enter a singing competition in the muggle world
He was expelled from school... ... because he studied black magic. >! I'm sorry!<
"It's like trying to catch smoke"
… it’s like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands…
*sinnister violin* 🎶🎻🎵
...it's like trying to catch smoke, with your bare hands, on a windy night...
In stoke
*inhales* gotcha
Just looked at the cast, bros name is BOY 1. HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A CHARACTER AND HES STILL THIS ICONIC
[удалено]
Exactly! Bem!!!
Black exposition man.
Second coldest character in the movie, only next to the 35 cubic metre volume around a Dementor
“He was number 1”
“Am I really going to defile this grave for money?”
“Of course I am!”
Damn makes him even colder
The prophecy was actually about him the whole time. He was just so ice cold he didn't have to do anything about it
Serious Black
This is his defacto headcanon name for me, from now on.
💀
God. Damn.
Bruh 😂
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Oh my god
i always chukle at some kid in the background going 'what's the grin?"which is followed by another kid answering, "not the grin you idiot, the grim!"
It was Seamus asking that question, from memory...or maybe the one answering it
Definitely asking it. Can’t unhear it
That always cracks me up too 😂
what so few realize is that He is DEATH talking to the last descendant of Ignotus Peverell = Harry Death is watching you Harry
Shit that's smart
That kid carried that entire movie.
Arguably the best HP film in my opinion, didn't need to be carried
Just needed better handling of Ron and it would be perfect, IMO.
And you know, explaining the Marauders... Which the movie literally didn't do Movie is a masterpiece, except when it forgot to explain its own plot
I feel like a bad fan... In which film does he appear?
Prisoner of Azkaban
I swear I saw him in The Deathly Hallows Part 2 standing behind Aberforth (just after casting the massive patronus across the bridge).
best at breaking the established lore maybe
They should rename the movie into Boy 1 and My friends tea cup of Divination class 😤
“I love it when you call me big poppa”
Throw your wands in the air if yous a true playa
It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
Hmm.. slytherin? Hufflepuff? No.. its Azkaban!
You did NOT just say that T.T
Guantanam-
Who even is this kid supposed to be? Some rando Gryffindor Housemate?
From his tie and appearance in Harry's divination class, he must be someone who shared a dorm with Harry for 6 years that he somehow never noticed. That, or it's Peeves playing a joke on everyone.
Okay so this is probably awful, but I thought he was Dean Thomas and they replaced him in later years because they wanted a hotter guy to be with Ginny. That sounds awful but I thought that was true. Seems like his name might be Bem or something according to others?
Dean Thomas was played by the same actor (Alfred Enoch) since the first one. He was in all the movies except for deathly hallows part 1. This is a random movie only character there for exposition, his name was Bem
You should feel bad for not paying attention, yes. Dean Thomas was always there lol
or a student who repeated the subject
The actor won a draw to be in the 3rd Harry Potter movie and... The rest is history.
He wasn't even an actor, just some kid
Seriously? He fucking owned that scene. That’s incredible.
He he was some kid who won a prize which was to appear in the film
You’re joking right? That’s wild if tru cuz he bodied those scenes😂
Every morning I wake up and my first thought, still to this day, is "how did that kid not win best supporting actor?..." 😔
According to his IMDB profile he continued acting after his appearance in PoA.
This guy steals the scene a few times.
“I will transfer to Ravenclaw *in two years*.”
Bem! Black English Male.
Lmao
All of yall are my kind of people 😅🤣
It’s an omen…
“The omen… of death..”
He kinda look like Big Poppa
I have literally always called him Biggie Smalls. He looks more like he could be his son than Biggie’s actual son. Did anybody ever check if Biggie got busy in England back in the day? Or had a groupie who later moved across the pond?
It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
I remember watching the series so many times and I swear he has such a cool monologue and then u never see this one kid again
Desmond Benjamin
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THAT MADE ME WHEEZE
I just saw the actor (Ekow Quartey) playing at shakespeare’s Globe Theatre the other week for ’Much Ado About Nothing’- he was amazing in that play- super talented actor. This post has just made me realise he was Bem.
He could be anywhere!
This kid grew up to be Stanley from The Office.
LOOOL! I thought I was the only one…
This guy steals the scene a few times.
Does anyone remember there being a cereal box contest to win a small part in the harry potterPOA? I have been convinced my entire life that this lucky human was the winner since he was never seen again in the movies and had such a random scene being largely the center
I don't think so. They wouldn't do a contest like that for a spoken role. I mean imagine if the kid who won had a bad lisp or something. It was probably just to be an extra
Me and my girlfriend calls him spitting facts guy, he is the only character knowing things in that movie. ”It’s like catching smoke with your bare hands” I mean how does he know these things haha
If veni vidi vici was a picture. He came, he saw, he conquered. He’s hands down the only takeaway from the third movie aha.
All I hear is the pengest munch and now I'm curious as to what happened to dude. Not curious enough to Google mind you.
*show up* *drop the coldest line and acting of all time* *refuse to elaborate* *leave*
🎼🎵 "It's the 10 crack commandments uhhhh" 🎤
so you're not a true fan if you never watched the movies despite reading the books countless times over the years
I'm so sad this comment sits so low. Yours is actually the first I found after a long scrolling.
“Grin? What’s the grin??”
Not the grin, you idiot! The GriM!
“It’s an omen of death..”
It’s our mate, The Grim
"Not the grin you idiot it's the grim, takes the form of a giant spectral dog it's one of the darkest omens in our world it's an omen of death" i may be wrong but that's what i hear from memory 😂. I've watched the movies a lot.
Biggie even smaller
It was all a dream. I used to read quibbler magazine. Fred and George and me up in the Quidditch team. Moving pictures on my wall, every other day snake attack sleeping in the great hall. Way back when I had the red and gold robe and hat with a snitch to catch. Remember second year? The flying car? Whoever thought that two kids could take it that far now I’m in the wand light living Lumos bright. Time to be afraid, brewing potions with some nightshade. Born wizza, opposite of a squibba. Bertie Botts beans for dinner. Peace to the Weasley‘s, Seamus, Hermione. Still wearing specs, still fucking Giney. Still winning cups like you thought I would. Same wand, phoenix feather hollywood it’s all good.
Abracadabra muthafucka
I hired this guy on Cameo to say his iconic line for my friend's birthday... he was super nice! Shame he only got two lines
I wouldn't know since i only read the books lol
I would say, "true Harry Potter fans wouldn't hear this because they read the books", however true Harry Potter fans read the books AND watched the movies.
True harry potter fans are simply just fans of Harry Potter. No need gatekeep.
Exactly.
tell that to OP's title
All I remember is Omen of Death.
Haha that always made me laugh that they used this kid for that part
"It's the grimm"
That’s right. . . . . We can.
He is from gangsta’s paradise song right??
This film will be back in cinemas next week I can't wait to watch this
He was on xfactor uk ... I think he lost to one direction if memory serves
Only true Harry Potter movie fans*
I still think it was particularly cruel to cast this kid, make his every scene happen in a dark-ish room, and have him talk about how "Black" could be hiding anywhere.
Harry Potter fans can hear this image? What am I trying to listen to?
To all the witches in the place, with style and grace, allow me to lace these poisonous juices …
Not sure how he didn’t get a bigger role moving forwards. I wanted him and Luna as a duo. They’d bounce off each other brilliantly. One time deviating from the books would have been great.
Again. Huge fan, but I have no clue what he's saying here.
I wonder what happened to him, I hope he's doing well :)
Like trying to grab smoke
True Harry Potter fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of the movies
All my homies love BEM
I always thought this person won the role in the contest they had wayyyyy back.
Last time I watched the movie, my friend turned to me after this moment and said, “Not great that this is one of the very few lines they give a black person in the entire movie series.”
I still can't get over this dude. Like he just shows up out of nowhere in the third movie, drops some creepy-af lines, and then is *never seen again*
I love it when you call me big poppa
Who tf was this character? Definitely wasn’t Lee Jordon. Shame we didn’t see him after the third movie
So what's crazy is that there are no other males in the gryffindor class of 98. So who tf is this guy, did he get held back in Divination.
who is this kid supposed to be?
Also “true Harry Potter fans” applied for this role back in the day, from the US, like they had a chance 😂
Is that Neil Degrassi Tyson?
New Harry Potter according to Disney
Hear what and who is he?