[ SECRET POST #4001 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4001 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It was written in the 90's/mid-00's and people were already burning the books because "kids might become wiccans, oh no!" is kinda a good reason for subtext/late reveals during a more socially-acceptable time...

Also, point me to literally any popular thing from that time period with stellar amounts of diversity. The whole "can't have a cast made up of just white people" thing wasn't even a thing that most writers thought about, back then.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, what if her books had been banned? She'd have been in a really financially precarious situation... :(
She's the one who described her own books, back then when supposedly no-one had ever invented diversity, as a 'plea for tolerance', yet when it comes to actually taking any risks, she bottled it. So much for Gryffindor.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, racial diversity was definitely a thing in the 90s, especially in children's media. Other kinds of diversity, not so much, but every kids' show from Barney and Friends to Gargoyles had moved past the "cast made up of just white people thing" by then.

[soldatsasha]

The Deathly Hallows came out in 2007. Gay characters in media weren't a new thing in 2007 by any stretch of the imagination, including in YA media like the Harry Potter series. Also, people were already burning the books and banning them in conservative areas from minute one. Having a gay character wouldn't make that somehow worse.

And like an anon said, diversity in children's media was fucking HUGE during the 90s and early 00s. Seriously, point me to one fucking kid's show, movie, or book that didn't have a diverse cast besides goddamn Harry Potter.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, the Jem and the Holograms cartoon and the Babysitters Club books had a more diverse cast in the 80s than HP did 20 years later.