[ SECRET POST #5342 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5342 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know, but that's not really what the secret is about. The secret is that OP thinks people do this to assuage their guilt about still liking HP. That it's performative and insincere. I don't really buy that.

I've seen it in other fandoms too.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

It's not the race-bending. Or any other bending that bothers me. (I've done it myself.) It's that they don't tag it as an AU, when there's, you know, no textual evidence to read a character that way and often counter-evidence*.

I love AUs. But the way these folk go about it, pretending that it's really canon, just comes across as condescending and smarmy and lazy. One tag, and I'd feel considerably differently about their work.

(*Someone wants to interpret Bucky Barnes as Jewish? Sure, no worries. Lots of people of that ethnicity in the NY City at the time, who aren't necessarily making that a huge deal in their daily life. Harry Potter, the vividly green-eyed kid growing up in an extremely prissy British Middle-Class neighbourhood, really a Desi? Somebody would have said something. The Patil sisters would have said something.)

[cakemage]

Harry Potter, the vividly green-eyed kid growing up in an extremely prissy British Middle-Class neighbourhood, really a Desi? Somebody would have said something. The Patil sisters would have said something.)

That's basically the problem I have with that headcanon, too. I have a hard time believing that the Dursleys in particular would never be racist assholes to him about it, much less Aunt Marge.