[ SECRET POST #3280 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3280 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

if Hermoine was intended to be black in the book all along, there would have been at least half a paragraph dedicated to making that clear the first time the character was introduced in the very first book. Rowling makes it very clear in writing when a character is not white, especially an important character.

that said, i don't think Rowling was trying to say that Hermoine was ever intended to be black in the books, just that it's cool if a black actress is cast to play her.

[(Anonymous)]

Just like how there was a paragraph dedicated to Blaise Zabini's blackness the first time he was brought up, and therefore absolutely never any giant shitstorm of rage and confusion about his race (and gender) not being what fandom had assumed it was for several books?

[(Anonymous)]

Zabini barely got passing mentions before the 6th book, where he finally got a description and dialogue lines tho.

[ceebeegee]

WHY DOES IT FUCKING MATTER SO MUCH?

Seriously, I ask this as the whitest person on the planet--why does it matter so much? Why are there reams of comments here sneering about "SJW" and "damaged control"? And I say this as not just a white person but one who was in fact a little taken aback at a black Hermione in Cursed Child. When you've grown up imaging a character a certain way, it takes a little getting used to. And I thought about it and decided it shouldn't matter--the books are the books, the movies are the movies and now the play is the play. WhywhyWHY are some of these fans SO invested in...idk, "proving" everyone (including the author) "wrong," that in fact Hermione should be white? I just don't get why this is such a big fucking deal.

[(Anonymous)]

The reason it fucking matters is because you can't just slap brown paint on a white character and call them Black. There is a lived experience in being Black that was in absolutely no fucking way reflected in Hermione, who was a girl living in the muggle world in the 90s, so you can't even use the "but it's a fictional magical world!!" excuse. Hermione was written as a white character. Casting her Black is fine, more than fine, but ever fucking acting like she was written as anything other than white is disingenuous at best and incredibly insulting at worst.

Source: being a Black woman that grew up in the 90s.

[(Anonymous)]

There are privileged black people in the UK whose parents are dentists, you know. Very different upbringing than whatever you're projecting.

[(Anonymous)]

And there are people speaking on behalf of everyone in one of my demographics whose experience they claim is universal to everyone like us, yet in no way reflects mine. So don't be so arrogant as to think you represent every black woman who grew up in the 90s.

[ceebeegee]

I didn't say she wasn't written as white. I said why does it matter if this new Hermione is black? I agree she was likely imagined by JKR as white but since tons of fans imagine her as black (Black Hermione is a very popular subject for fanart) it's obviously not that incongruous to them. Anyway--the books are the books, the movies are the movies, and the new play is its own thing as well.