[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Definitely agreeing with what you're saying. I think what's more important to wizards is blood and magic (but I wouldn't put it TOTALLY past them). Look at the way many people view Fleur since she's half witch half siren, is it? Exoticism. Lupin and any who are werewolves are deemed subhuman (despite being wizards or witches 29-30 days out of the month). And of course goblins, elba, centaurs, and other sentient magical creatures are treated as less.

To the Dursleys point. The only way I could ever imagine that is if Lily was the one who was mixed, and Petunia came out as the fully white passing sister (which would then also mean different things for their relationship and exploring that would take nuance). But for that to work, Vernon could have NEVER met Petunia's family. I also don't know what the UK in the 90's (and arguably the 80s) was like in regards to race and mixing and all that -- my context is completely different and this kind of nuanced requires a lot of research or possibly lived experience./knowledge of the mores. I guess Harry's dad also being mixed could, in theory work, since the wizarding world cares less about Complexion/race than muggles do, and the Potters could have married a South East Asian woman -- as long as she was pureblooded. And I will agree with The poster above me who comments on the fact that she wouldn't necessarily have to be Indian. She could easily have been Pakistani, Bengali, Sri Lankan, hell West Indian. There has always been a lot of Caribbean immigration to the UK.

In regards to Hermione being black, or at least mixed, that is something that, while reading the books as a kid, while I knew she was white, I kind of liked to pretend she was black/half. It was finally a main character in a book with hair like mine. I remember feeling upset when they kept her hair straight in the movies. But I got over it because I knew it wasn't what I pretended anyway. And yeah, the insults to her hair would have taken on a far more loaded connotation if this was the case.

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*Bangladeshi, not Bengali, apologies