After his horse refuses o eat from a bag of oats, he sprinkles it with salt and eats the horse""s meal." [Another claimed: "Dumbledore: Daft or Dangerous?"] Sirius explained how there was a smear campaign against anyone who claimed that the Dark Lord (Voldemort, or You-Know-Who) had returned...you don""t have to bow down to nobody")Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a strong black convict, cooly defiant, incarcerated for assault and battery - for almost beating a white man to death when a gun was pulled on him; in the ruck, he was singing the blues classic spiritual "Long Gone"; once married with a 5 year-old child when he left home, he was often angered that he was always told to "Be nice"When Jackson ordered the "nigger" to shut up, Cullen lashed back: "You call me nigger again, Joker, and I""m gonna kill ya!" Just then, their truck was sideswiped and crashed over a guard rail barrier." Wearing her bathrobe while she downed some of his whiskey and appeared tipsy ("she was a gal who""d take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle"), Marlowe asked her about the current whereabouts of "a red-headed girl named Velma Valento" who used to work at Florian""s as a singer/showgirl "doll," but Jessie denied having any recollection.