[ SECRET POST #3935 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3935 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Dectectorists]


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[iZombie]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

yay, it's actually nice seeing that other people feel this way too!

and I mean to some extent, I get it! there is a bit of a dearth of minority characters in major roles, and it'd be TOTALLY cool if there was, guess what, an AU that actually explored what the differences would be if Harry Potter had actually been Indian or something and how that would change things! or if say Parvati Patil had been the main character in a magical boarding school series, but that's rather a different proposition than 'so harry's brown in this pic, praise me for my cultural awareness'.

also I haven't even yet touched on the humongously problematic aspects of someone going like 'so harry's got curly hair and maybe his name could be an anglicised version of an Indian surname, that means he's AS GOOD AS INDIAN AMIRITE, this is a TOTES VALID INTERPRETATION of canon' like - woooooow, way to reduce the lived experience of being a minority in the UK to something as trite as 'I got curly hair and a weird name'.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i would have loved to see a minority character in a larger role but it's not like they didn't exist at all or do anything in canon? you could easily write an au fic that gives them bigger roles in the story, or like you said, an au where harry was indian or whatever. that could be really interesting, but just drawing a picture of harry with darker skin? i'm sorry, but it just rubs me the wrong way.

[(Anonymous)]

speaking of fanworks! This is actually one of the main reasons I rather enjoyed Copperbadge's 'Laocoon's Children' (the Stealing Harry sequel). It promoted Padma to MC level, and actually fleshed out her background and had her dad show up and everything. THAT was genuinely fantastic, even now it still rather stands out as one of the rare fics that went there.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, thank you, i will have to check that out! that sounds like exactly the kind of thing i would love to see in terms of fanworks.

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty good! If you haven't read the entire Stealing Harry epic, I'd say you're in for a treat.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/987408 <-- the original, basically a 'what if Sirius didn't go to jail and everything changes from there', lots of fun, great interpretation of Snape that I rather enjoyed

https://archiveofourown.org/works/992265 <-- the sequel or 'harry potter but au', has Slytherin!Harry, Hufflepuff!Draco and Ravenclaw!Padma replace the original trio and it is A LOT OF FUN, honestly. it doesn't go all the way to the end of the books, but Copperbadge did include his notes on how he saw the story going, so it's a thoroughly satisfying read overall.

[(Anonymous)]

I FORGOT NEVILLE, he's in there too and gets treated a hell of a lot better than canon ever was to him. Seriously, he's one of the main reasons to read it too.