[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[diet_poison]

What the fuck did you want her to say? "Hermione should have been white"?

[(Anonymous)]

why not just say "i think this actress will be a wonderful hermione" or something to that effect? that doesn't make any implication about what hermione's race is or isn't, it just says that she (the author) approves of the casting and people can draw from that what they will.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe she actually likes the idea

I mean I know it's not *likely* that someone would be sincere but

[(Anonymous)]

maybe i'm still just bitter over the whole dumbledore thing, idk. it would've meant a lot to me as a gay teenager to have an actual confirmed gay character in a book series that i loved instead of finding it out after the fact. when she revealed it later on i just felt... resentful, almost? like she said it to make people happy rather than because she actually cared about dumbledore being gay. this feels kind of the same way to me.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not the only gay person in the world and we don't all need books to state "so and so was gay" to figure out that they are or be happy if the author confirms it. And for a lot of other gay kids it was probably the first time in their life they'd heard the word "gay" in a context that wasn't hateful. Get over yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

I like gay Dumbledore, but wouldn't a revelation have been a bit forced? Creating a situation for Harry to learn about his headmasters sexuality could easily have felt shoe-horned in. I mean I don't recall people talking about McGonagall's in the books (pretty sure that was it was revealed post-books, not sure.)

Then let's take into account that Dumbledore didn't share many personal things with Harry. Like Harry learned a lot more about him after he died...I supposed there could have had a throw away line in Skeeters book, but I think that would have been a bit weak.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I feel like even a throwaway line mentioning it somewhere in the books themselves would've been far better than revealing it in an interview that a lot of people might not ever even read or see. No one is saying it needs to be a huge revelation or anything. It's entirely possible to have something like that come up organically in a conversation at some point without it being a big deal, but that would make it 100% inarguable canon that can't be dismissed by the whole "It was never mentioned in canon itself so therefore it doesn't qualify as canon" argument.

[diet_poison]

How is that categorically any different than saying "imagine them however you want"? Either way it's implying that black Hermione in alternate interpretations is fine. Why does she have to be deliberately vague if she thinks it's OK for people to make Hermione black?