[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No I mean HER personal illustrations.

https://www.therowlinglibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jkr_gary.jpg

[greghousesgf]

those noses that are just nostrils. ick.

[(Anonymous)]

hilarious story

the MLK Jr monument in Washington, DC? some genius decided to carve it out of white stone

it looks SO WEIRD

but anyway, my point is, black&white media make indicating skin tone a really dicey and unreliable barometer of ethnicity

this is 1) obviously not by a great artist 2) explicitly features weird lighting - I have 0 idea if the person next to Hermione is supposed to be Black Dean Thomas or just somebody in more shadow, and 3) again, not the text of the books

I already said I agree that JK probably did consider Hermione default-white, but that doesn't make it """canon""" in a way that invalidates her announcement, which to me sounds less like "aha I'm so clever for not mentioning race" and more like "hey, it turns out I didn't actually mention race and I sure did mention Hermione's bushy voluminous hair a lot, I would like assholes to stop shutting people down for racist reasons in my name." I've no doubt she's smug elsewhere, but I don't feel like this (very bad, literal napkin?) art by a non-artist is 'proof' of anything.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, some people are never happy.

What black, carveable stone should they have used then? The statue is massive, you have to factor cost and durability too.

[(Anonymous)]

lmao I don't like, hate the monument, but it was a dumb choice, and it looks weird, and if they aren't willing to shell out for expensive stone for the only MLK jr monument in the city when everything else is marble-plated and marble certainly aint cheap (and black marble exists), like....that doesn't say great things tbh

but it didn't have to be skin-color-ish brown or black, it could have just been like, dark grey granite? granite's super common and durable. Or they could have made the statue out of non-stone and enameled it or something, anything but pasty white soapstone-looking thing they did use

[(Anonymous)]

That artist is JK ROWLING.

how much clearer do I have to make this?

[(Anonymous)]

JK ROWLING is NOT A TRAINED ARTIST she is a WRITER and she DIDN'T PUT THOSE DRAWINGS INTO THE BOOKS

I fucking understand what you're saying, I just don't think it's a relevant point. I don't think whatever JKR says in interviews is canon gospel either.