[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Arguably, the character most likely to be Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi would be Hermione because her parents are dentists. There seems to be a lot of Asian dentists in the UK.

Tonks could easily be mixed race because it would have really upset the Black family if not only did one of their family marry a Muggle, they married a *non-white* Muggle (the Black family seem super prejudice so I reckon that would be a big issue for them)

Snape is a very good possibility as well, perhaps his dad was second generation Pakistani or mixed so Snape arrives at Hogwarts as a mixed raced mixed-blood poor kid who is an immediate target for James Potter.

Hagrid could be mixed race as well as half-giant. Maybe instead of reading him as having a West Country type accent, we should be reading him as having a slight Jamaican accent?

There aren't that many characters you could make a decent case for being non-white. I wonder if there aren't that many non-white magical folk in the UK. Would 'African' magic be different from 'European' magic? Did the British wizard folk try to suppress the magic of Indian wizards? How much did British colonial history affect the wizarding world?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe all of this is just trying too bloody hard. JKR's world is as white as it is basically middle class. Deal with it.

[chamonix]

I love all of these ideas, particularly your reasoning for why other characters would make more sense to be asian than James Potter, the epitome of British Landed Gentry.

The Imperial stuff regarding Britain's colonial history with India is a really fascinating avenue as well. What-ifs like this remind me of the long summer between books 4 and 5 when the internet was just exploding with creative ideas and theories.

[(Anonymous)]

I like your reasoning on all of this - I personally quite like racebending and genderbending, but only when they're used to say something interesting (and when they're tagged appropriately).