[ SECRET POST #4243 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4243 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For both hermione and harry, I think the main starting factor was the way their hair is described. Bushy, messy, bothers the (british, white, staid) Dursleys in harry's case, only smoothed by huge amounts of potions/product in Hermione's (ie relaxers) and POC fans found something relatable in that, and then things snowballed from there.

one of the big meta posts about Desi Harry mentions that if Harry were biracial, having his mother's green eyes would be much more noticeable, and that makes sense with everyone commenting on them All The Fucking Time. The most interesting evidence to me was that whenever Harry is dreaming/having visions from Voldemort's POV, the narration always points out Voldemort's paleness (pale skin, pale hands) as if that were something surprising to Harry or othering somehow. And Hari is a common Indian name, I forget what potter was supposed to be the anglicized version of.

anyway, I don't think it comes 100% out of nowhere. obviously JKR didn't think of it in the 90s, but it makes sense within the text and it's fun to imagine.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I don't really see the point of race-bending Harry. Sure, if you're South Asian you get a character who sort of looks like you. But Harry wasn't raised Indian. He went from being an isolated child living with the Dursleys, who certainly neither knew nor cared about Indian culture to immersing himself entirely in British magical culture, which seems to be rooted firmly somewhere between the Middle Ages and the 1950s, with all the lack of multiculturalism that implies. Racebending literally any other character in the book would be more meaningful.