It's not a big deal. There are lots of red-headed people here, it's all that Viking ancestry.
LalaithUrwen wrote: I got made fun of for my red hair a lot when I was growing up. (The freckles and, from 3rd grade on, the glasses didn't help either.)
I didn't realize it was a bigger deal in the UK.
I've never heard before in my whole life of red-headed people getting bullied. The only person I know who got teased for having red hair was Anne Shirley! And she's fictional.
One of my work colleagues has glorious, shining auburn hair: it's Pre-Raphaelite hair. And she has big, brown eyes.
The same colouring as Ginny Weasley ...