[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[erinptah]

And context of the scene is that it's the middle of the night, so it means her skin in the moonlight is pale in contrast to the dark forest. It means she's relatively light-skinned, but that doesn't have to make her Caucasian.

I don't think JKR's saying this for the progressive points anyway, I think she was trying to shut down people who were harassing artists for drawing black!Hermione because ~it's not canon~.

[(Anonymous)]

By now this has shifted, now the artists who don't draw Harry (or James) as Indian and Hermione as black tend to get harassed.

[(Anonymous)]

>Harry (or James) as Indian
Yeah, seriously, what's up with that?

[(Anonymous)]

Basically a matter of "what can we do to diversify the characters' races" (some out of genuine interest, some for brownie points) mixed with "Indian people are one of the biggest minorities in the UK" and they went from there. I don't mind those interpretations at all, but I have seen my fair share of "how dare you not subscribe to this progressive headcanon du jour, you utter racist" flung at artists who still draw them as white and that's just shitty.

[digitalghosts]

I heard rumour the Asian genes in James' family came from JKR as seen it for ages but would be inconsistent with his family's background unless they just ignored all none-whiteness and just brushed it under the rug. However, I read the books first in 2005 and it was not anything substantial as followed that up recently as was curious at the origin. Hermione though never sounded anything to me but higher middle class so could be anything as whole 'colourblind' theme was doing great when her parents had her. However, her being drawn as none-white being a substantial percent is recent with theatre casting. More interested in the James bit as it resurfaced now after being erased by 5th film (and being 40 in 1st...).

[(Anonymous)]

Examples?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Same.

I feel bad for JKR. The woman cannot win.

[(Anonymous)]

I think she was trying to shut down people who were harassing artists for drawing black!Hermione because ~it's not canon~.

That was my interpretation (although I've only ever seen that tweet in isolation and have no context). I didn't think she was insisting she deliberately intended Hermione to be black or racially ambiguous, but rather that she thought it was a valid way to see the character and didn't want people to fight about it.

[diet_poison]

Fourthed, with JKR. Also, what exactly was she supposed to say?