[ SECRET POST #4029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4029 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

"I also think the tweet too-neatly skirts around the fact that (as OP says) Hermione's skin color was never specified because Rowling is a white author who subconsciously views white as the default and thus never felt the need to specify when her characters were white."

That's my issue with it as well. I'm not entirely comfortable with the tweet or praising JKR for being progressive when... well, it wasn't really that progressive. I don't think JKR deliberately wrote Hermione's race so it's open to interpretation for people who want to imagine her as a non-white character. I think it's more a case of serendipity, where JKR didn't specify Hermione was white because white is her default. So to me it feels weird to applaud JKR for being progressive and citing her own canon when the canon is that way by accident.

[(Anonymous)]

So it seems like what really bothers you is the idea of people giving JKR credit for intentionally leaving Hermione's race ambiguous

and I'm just not sure that people are giving her credit for that, or that the tweet is trying to take credit for that

[(Anonymous)]

The tweet is arguable, but yeah, people really do give her credit for that. Not everyone, obviously. But enough people are still enamored of her in general, and/or willing to squee over any creator who's even a teensy open minded.