[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

You're telling me that with all of Rowling's money and influence that she was scared to tell the world from 2012 to 2016, like she did with outing Dumbledore, that she always meant for Hermione to be black or biracial all this time but she was pressured into white washing her by Bloomsbury, Scholastic, and/or Warner Brother's?

I'm telling you that big-name, award-winning, best-selling authors have routinely dealt with whitewashing on book covers, up to a few years ago when a couple of egregiously bad examples hit the news.

I'm not saying anything about Rowling's personal motivations, interpretation, or emotional states. First, because I honestly don't give a shit about that part of the debate. Second, because I'm not a telepath to know those things and neither are you.

EDIT: Also, in-development ideas about a character don't mean squat when we're looking at the final production of novels, films, and stage plays.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't really talking to you when I said "you're telling me." That was a general "you're telling me." I just find it unbelievable that someone at JK Rowling's level of power and money doesn't have the social clout or the balls to have said something in all that time before Cursed Child that she meant Hermione to be black or biracial. Who was there to bully or guilt her into silence that she couldn't wave aside after the Harry Potter movies were all made and released? Pottermore would have been a great opportunity to have a darker skinned Hermione in the art work, but Hermione was just as white as ever there.

Those other "big-name, award-winning, best-selling authors" who might not have as much money as Rowling and power as Rowling have all talked about their whitewashing experiences. What has kept her from saying the same happened to her?

Like a lot of people who call Rowling's bullshit what it is, it's not the Hermione being thought of as black by some fans that bothers me. In fact, if Rowling said that she always wanted Hermione to be black or mixed but was bullied into making her white, I would feel sorry for Rowling and accept that Hermione was in fact black all this time. But that's not what happened. For Americans ethnic tensions are very much on racial lines so they thought it was only "logical" for Hermione to be black. Then this headcanon caught on with people all over the world and it took on a life of its own. It was entirely a fandom creation, Rowling had very little to do with it for good or ill. What really bothers me is that Rowling pretending Hermione's race was ambiguous when it obviously wasn't. There's even an early sketch where she had Dean Thomas drawn and he was drawn as black because he is and Hermione wasn't darkened at all.

No, I'm not a mind reader but I think I can make a guess about people's motivations and thoughts based on their actions. And Rowling's actions to me screamed liberal virtue signaling. If I'm being kind, I can say fan support of people seeing her work however they want was mixed up in there but it was mostly virtue signaling.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm sure if you want to rant at someone who actually gives a fuck about what Rowling's original intent was, other people will be happy to oblige.