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⌈ Secret Post #3280 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Ok, my thoughts are:

Hermione it totally white in the books. It's what JK wrote, and weather she used the word white or not is totally irrelevant. She wrote Hermione as white.

This point however is irrelevant. They cast a black actress to play her, and this changes dick all about the character. They changed a physical thing about the character from the canon, they did, and they are allowed to do that. I think it gives the mudblood stuff a weird meta connotation of real world racism, but it's still fine.

I also think that in theatre this is particularly fine as it is always all about who can best ACT the part, although I will admit that if it had been a white actor taking a black role, even in theatre, I'd be shitting rage right now. I'm putting that down to the principals of punching up rather than theatre rules, tho.

Finally, I think it's sad, but I kinda suspect this casting choice may have been slightly swayed based on the controversy this would, and has caused. I didn't know about this play, and the first thing I did know about it is that I need to go and see it because it'll be a giant middle finger to all the racists complaining about it. It was in some small way, a marketing decision as well as a casting one.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it gives the mudblood stuff a weird meta connotation of real world racism

precisely

"mudblood" is painted, from start to finish, as the wizarding world's "nigger" - it works much better as a metaphor for racism than it does as actual racism, especially when multiple races are already depicted in the books

it's also a reminder of the important fact that discrimination in all worlds isn't just about race, that even if someone is white some arsehole will still find something different about them to mock and derogate them for, be it family upbringing or social or economic class (and remember 90s britain was all about class war) or being a ginger or whatever - making hermione black belittles that