[ SECRET POST #4029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4029 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

She describes Hermione's prominent teeth, eye colour and hair texture but I think that's about all. Oh, and one time she's brown, but it's summer, so that could be a tan or natural skin colour, not specified.

[(Anonymous)]

And there's that "shocked white face" thing. And yes, black people can pale in shock but not to the extent of getting "white faced" so basically, based on that one line, Hermione could be just about any ethnicity except black (or a particularly dark skinned one).

[(Anonymous)]

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...Or she could be a paler-skinned black person.

Like, I don't think that Rowling actually wrote Hermione as anything but white, but not all black people have very dark skin and that doesn't make them not black.

[(Anonymous)]

Even lighter skinned black people wouldn't go "white" though. That said, I'm entirely in favour of headcanoning her as any ethnicity, but a line like this shows quite clearly that Rowling never imagined her as anything other than white and saying, as she does, that only racists use that line as an argument is silly because sorry lady, that one's on you for using language that makes it impossible to say "she could be black as there is nothing in the text to contradict it".

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

...Nobody goes actually white. I think you seriously underestimate the range of skin colour that black people can actually have.

[(Anonymous)]

No but there is a pretty big limitation in how pale a darker pigmented person can go. Whereas in lighter skinned people, an obvious paling is very noticable.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. I knew a couple white girls in high school who were so white, you could see the blue lines of their veins through their skin. They don't have to "go white", they already were.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like they were stripey blue.