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Hermione is and always has been black, according to J.K Rowl
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Hermione is and always has been black, according to J.K Rowling.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/new-harry-potter-play-casts-black-hermione#.df4XGb82la

It's just never going to end, is it?
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Us whites are so oppressed amirite guys??
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>>63901208
More like "Boy hollywood sure found a great race button that prints money"

I'm black, and even i think this is bullshit.
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brb, chucking out books. Couldn't even have a ginger ron.
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>>63901243
>I'm black
ALL FUCKING NIGGERS MUST FUCKING HANG.
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>>63901208
Well yeah, minorities have every privilege under the sun now.
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>>63901137
>according to J.K Rowling

find me in the article where it says that specifically
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It sound Rowling didn't write this. It's just some dumb play that literally no one will see and most people won't even know about.
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>>63901280
What did he mean by this?
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>>63901137
>making more harry potter bullshit

i thought the series was over christ
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>>63901208
What privileges do black people truly, statistically lack?
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You think she would've fucking said something during the earlier films casting about it...

I'm fine casting a black girl in some harry potter extended universe story, like who fucking cares. But suggesting that Hermione's been the wrong race all this time ? Ridiculous
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>>63901280
As a black man, i concur. Niggers are the worst kind of black person, just like crackers and trailer trash are the worst kind of white person.
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>>63901336
knowing who their father is
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>>63901336
Having fathers.
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>>63901280
please don't hang me sir, i love living and i'm a cool guy once you get to know me.
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>>63901303
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>>63901137
Well I for one am glad JK Rowling clarified this now, instead of fifteen years ago when she saw Hermione's depiction in book covers, chapter header art, movies, etc.
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>>63901336
The privilege of not being stereotyped immediately just because skin colour
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>>63901350
>just like crackers and trailer trash are the worst kind of white person.
only they keep your country safe as part of the armed forces, while niggers just kill each other
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>>63901406
She also decided that harry and hermione should have been together.

Now we get both! Interracial Harry Potter/Hermione!

IT'LL PRINT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

JJ ABRAMS IS SLATED TO DIRECT.
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>>63901137
She's a mudblood, of course she's black.
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>>63901509
Fuck, It all makes sense now.
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I'm getting pretty tired of the opposite of white being black. There are other minorities to pick from, you know.
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>>63901350
>Niggers are the worst kind of black person
Have you met an Abo?
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Why do people even give a shot what race the character is? I mean sure, if it's some pasty fuck speaking Swahili that's unbelievable, but there are plenty of black British people.

I just don't get why this is an issue to anyone at all.
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>>63901400

son of a bitch it's true
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>>63901137
>Hermione is and always has been black, according to J.K Rowling.

She didn't even say that
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>>63901545
>abo
>human
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>>63901545
They don't have a large enough population to taint elections.
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>>63901555

>I just don't get why this is an issue to anyone at all.
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>>63901208
Feel good about yourself posting this after every comment from a white person online?

It's too bad that the punchline, the one where you'll still be ground under the heel of white society well into your old age, won't dawn on you until it is much too late.


But hey, have fun while you can ;^)
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>according to J.K. Rowling
>It's just never going to end, is it?

Exaggerating the truth to induce rage while hoping people won't read the article? Shit's here to stay forever, I'm afraid.
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>>63901400
Wew, Harry is racist.
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>>63901400
>very brown
What did she mean by this?
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>>63901456
That sounds conveniently subjective.
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>people complain about hermoine being black
>not the statistical impossibility that both her parents were dentists
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>>63901538
Doesn't sell as well. Nobody feels bad for asians, mostly because they've done fine on their own for hundreds of years (mostly they just like killing each other).

Asians don't feel the need for handouts from white people they hate.
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well at least ron isn´t a muslim
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>>63901721
>implying
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>>63901670
>not the statistical impossibility that both her parents were dentists
>when she was a wizard and magic exists
if magic is real, then why can't love?
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>>63901721
That's next anon. And Harry is a transsexual.
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>>63901400
shopped
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So the pathetic excuse behind this shit is that Rowling never specified her race in the books?

Did she ever specify other characters races, like Harry, Dumbledore, or any other students and staff?
When can i expect an all-Vietnamese adaptation of this story?
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>>63901137
While her race is unclear, blacks do not naturally have her hair colour OR texture naturally without some serious race mixing.
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>>63901752
>Harry Potter and the Wand of Confusion.
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>>63901752
>>63901721
What's wrong with this? Honestly, why does it trigger you so much?
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>>63901651
systematic bias doesn't have to be institutional, but institutions may not realize they perpetrate it eg 'stereotype threat'
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>>63901778

Harry is a mary sue, dumbledore is a fag,

We've known both for well over a decade now.
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Where does it say that hermione was always black?
All I see is that they cast some black women to play her on stage.
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>>63901502
>only they keep your country safe as part of the armed forces, while niggers just kill each other
Wait, what? Have you ever known anyone in the military?

There's a huge number of black people in the military. Military is set up to attract people in a lower economic class as an "escape", and there are more black people who are from a poor family.
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LOL, this is so great. And the best part is that there's nothing you sissy white boys can do about it.
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>>63901840
Calm down, Quentin, don't get all farto.
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>>63901791
>what's wrong with pushing a mental illness as ok
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>>63901840
Why do comics have some words highlighted randomly?
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>>63901828
>dumbledore is a fag

niggerfag? chinkfag? jewfag? sandfag?
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>>63901818
Thanks for the newspeak.
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>>63901137
well the mudblood part makes sense now. weasley got the short end of the stick though.
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Chapter 22, prisoner of azkaban
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Fuck off to /pol/.
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>>63901336

They can't commit crimes and get away with it.

Just look at Michael Brown.
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>>63901878
>implying being trans is a mental illness
Are you from 1950? Do women and niggers have too many rights too?
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>>63901902
Puerto Fagin
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>>63901772

It's from the prisoner of azkaban. Look it up. It says so right here in my copy as well.
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>>63901939
DELETE THIS
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>>63901939
REKT
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>>63901896
It's a comic technique to show a voice emphasis on a certain word without being too detracting.
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desu Hermoine being black wouldn't make too much of a difference to the plot, and it kind of sounds like a sassy black girl name anyway.

The real issue I have is where being black makes the character nonsensical and unbelievable. Like how would a black Bond spy in Russia for all those years without sticking out like a sore thumb?
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>>63901939
It turned pale from fear.
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Ffs it's in some little play somewhere. It's not even /tv/ fuck off /pol/tards and go spank yourselves off to black dick on ur containment board
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>>63901400
I think she meant tanned, in contrast to Ron, who only got freckles when exposed to sunlight.
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>>63901400
>Very brown

What?
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>WE WUZ WIZERDS!
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>>63901939
Skin bleaching like Lil Kim because she was ashamed of her negroidaloidal darkness.
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>>63902085
Her hair.
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>according to rowling
>the same one that was also part of selecting watson for the movies where if the race was even ambiguous in the first place it would ultimately be confirmed

Yeah okay.
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Why are women so insufferable?
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>>63901400
Maybe she was just a sand-nigger and not a full blown Shub-Niggerath.
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>>63902127
scratch that. wasn't it because she was just on some holiday? bitch was just tanned
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>>63901921
go read a book
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>>63901939
White with fear, maybe
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>>63902127
You implying Ron had freckly hair?
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>>63902127
>>63902085
>>63902077
>>63901649
>>63902173
>>63901989
>>63901400
To 'look brown' means to be tanned in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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I like how she conveniently confirms this now of all times, after years of books, movies, and merchandising
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>>63901989
>Hermione very brown
She spent her summer vacation in France, pretty sure she was soaking up some sun because seriously, who gets a fucking tan in the UK?

It's the same reason Ron was very freckly. He was in Egypt.
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>Dumbledore is gay
>Hermione is black
>Despite 8 movies of Hermione being white, I'm making her black now

She's literally insane.
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>>63902173
>English
>tanned
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>Watch all the fangirls who dress up as Hermoine start bitching on Tumblr and Twitter about the race change

What's next Ron was secretly trans?
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>>63901506

>Implying Daniel Radcliffe's meager white "penis" could ever satisfy a beautiful chocolate sister

baka
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>>63902244
She's just desperate to stay relevant. Most people create more content, but who am I to judge?
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>>63902228
That would be brown as a berry. Not look brown.
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>>63901506
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>>63901137
>Buzzfeed
>>63902244
Yeah, and remember all the times Dumbledore was getting mad bitches?
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>>63902292
Where the fuck did you grow up?

Berries are red.
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>>63902257
Implyng
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>>63901400
was it a tan from the holiday she went on with her parents? Been years since ive read it but i remember something like that
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>>63902340
>spray tan is tan
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>>63901280
beware the deceptions of posters like this. they will pose as racists to an extreme degree.
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>>63902321
I'm not saying Dumbledore has to be straight.

I think it's retarded that she had to tell people that he was gay for literally no reason. There's no reason for it, he was like 500 years old and asexual throughout the entire novel.

It's like Lucas coming out and saying Yoda was gay. Why? Why tell us that? Why does it matter?
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When these films are remade in 25 years, there WILL be a non white playing one of the trio,
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>>63902240

Nobody goes outside in france, it's against their speech laws.
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>>63902340
Her short hair was worse than genocide.
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>>63902336
>not knowing Chaucer
American swine.
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>>63902369
It adds depth to his character instead of him being unrealistic
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>>63902286
She's such a cunt tbqh. Being the most successful author of all time clearly isn't enough.
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>>63902373
French beaches are actually pretty popular.
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>>63902429
I'm Australian. cunt.
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>Hermonie and Ron get together in the end and have children

Black gingers...This must be witchcraft
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>>63902372
We won't be here in 25 years
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>>63902369

It made a shitload of money by having a "controversial gay character" What do you mean no reason?
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>>63902436
Are you memeing?
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>>63902441
She's a cunt because she's out of ideas. She's just guilty of blowing her wad and now she can't get it back up.
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>>63902018
huh I wonder why all books don't do that

probably because its fucking retarded
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>>63902449

For terrorists. Don't you know the french are afraid of each other now? It's hilarious.
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>>63901456
everyone is stereotyped immediately, even white folk. Whites can't dance, can't jump, are boring, dry, have no culture, are evil, and smell like wet puppies according to stereotypes.
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>>63902461
>Black gingers...This must be witchcraft

Or maybe it's maybelline?
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>>63902244
I think she just likes pissing off hardcore Harry Potter fans as well as getting brownie points from SJWs. Doubt she really cared about any of this or else she'd make a big deal about it a long time ago. Like if Hermione was supposed to be black, why didn't she say anything about her being white in the movies?

Sure was progressive of her to not stand up for the way she imagined things long before the movies were a twinkle in anyone mind. There could've been a strong black female main character in one of the most popular movie franchises of all time, yet she chose to stay silent about it. Way to go.
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>>63902369
To be fair, the gay thing is kind of there in his backstory. The whole thing with Grindelwald...
>>63902373
Don't they have nude beaches...?
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After Voldemort is defeated and global wizard equality is achieved, the influx of half-breeds and less-capable wizards into Hogwarts and other magical schools grows dramatically. Criticisms of this change are met with accusations of bigotry, including calls of "you are starting to sound a lot like You Know Who with that talk!" This process continues, with miscegenation becoming "all the rage" for the next hundred years.

By the year 2100, magical blood lines have become so diluted that very few people can actually use magic. Magical creatures find that they cannot communicate with students at school, wands begin to refuse ownership, and tensions rise as "pure" students begin to unite. The fear of a return to the Dark Days is still strong, and those critics who raise concerns over the decline in quality and use of magic are called "bigots" for their anti-muggleblood views.

In more progressive circles, prominent "intellectual" wizards begin to suggest that magic doesn't really exist- not objectively, anyway. It is merely a social construct, and witchcraft and wizardry can manifest themselves in many different forms, most of which don't involve the use of magic at all. This is met with great approval by the majority of muggleborns, though there is still discontent among those who continue to actually use magic "correctly".

To combat growing discontent, the Ministry of Magic decrees that "flagrant displays of magic" are now illegal on school grounds, as this can result in prejudice and feelings of unwelcomeness for muggleborn witches and wizards, who are utterly incapable of casting spells (even those who manage to keep wands). The school removes most of it's "applied magic" curriculum, instead replacing it with "Justice-Oriented Magic" and "Muggleborn Studies", which focus on present-day social issues and the various expressions of "Alternative Magic" that are popular at the time, such as Ouija boards, Tarot cards, and divination of palms and tea-leaves.
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>>63901670
they met at dental school.
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>>63902460
>I'm Australian. cunt.
That subhuman Irish and Abo DNA of yours isn't helping matters.
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>>63902469
He's a gay man in a position of power. It's inspiring to young readers
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>>63902466
We'll probably last a decade longer than that. Remember, global warming is being allowed to happen because it decreases the energy cost of getting at the oil under the poles. That oil will give us the extra decade, at best.
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>>63902499
Kill it now
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>>63902529
>Don't they have nude beaches...?

Full of hairy fat women, yes.
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>>63901818
I agree. there's bias against white people, too. let's work together to abolish it.
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>>63902461
Oh hey yeah! Weren't their kids described as redheaded like their father?
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>>63902566
but sir..... it's kinda cute
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How do we go from this
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>OP posts Rowling claims Hermione was always
>nowhere in the article does it say anything like that
>everyone here just believes it because it fits their /pol/ Narrative

Fuck all of you.
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>>63902546
That would make a pretty cool book/movie series.
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>>63902580
You haven't been to a nude beach have you?
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>>63902607
To this?
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>>63901400

Nobody would describe a black person as "very brown" like that
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>>63902654
Black magic
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Jesus Christ, you people are reactionary fucking idiots. Did anyone actually read the link? Nowhere does it say that Rowling said Hermione was actually black all along; a "BuzzFeed Film and TV writer" was the one that claimed that Hermione's race wasn't ever specified, so there's about as much authority behind that statement as me saying that Hagrid had an L-shaped penis with three heads. Considering that Hermione is Rowling's self-insert, it's really unlikely that she'd make her black anyway.
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You're an idiot.
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>>63902610
That's /tv/ for you.

In fact, Rowling has said Hermione is a caricature of herself at that age (though more clever).
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>>63902032
i only dislike it because it's obviously only done to push an agenda and to pander.
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>>63902654
That's what happens when you go from the silver screen to a stage
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>>63901137
Hermione is described as white in the books. Try again.
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>>63901137
ITT nobody has scene a stage production or understands the concept of blind casting.
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>>63902654
TWITTER, TUMBLR, FACEBOOK 2015 and J.K. Rolling In the Doe's publicity coordinator wants her to be more relevant for her next stupid movie with Magical Beasts that only the autists who cum when her name appears on screen will go and sit through.
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>>63902051
>>63902219
Blacks don't go pale with fear though
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>>63902680
>actually read the link?
>/tv/
>read
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>>63902654

It's called Polyjuice Potion.

After their school time, Ron realized he loved women of color, Hermione was desperate to keep him.
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>>63902607
to this
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>>63902546
missing a crying eagle
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>>63902654
why are British women so fucking ugly no matter what race?
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>>63902722
She a mudblood.
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>>63902633

It's france. You think the majority of women are skinny?

Much like "we care about free speech" it's all just a bunch of bullshit.
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>>63902755
SMOKE
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>>63902727

Yeah but that's fucking stupid since this is some sort of 8th story official shit. You don't just change an established character completely for the sake of nothing. They may as well cast a woman to play Potter and a 12 year old boy as McGonagall.

It just doesn't make sense.
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>>63902372
but we'll also have a perfectly fine romantic relationship between harry and dumbledore. snape will be asexual, literally without sex organs. voldemort will be the only white person, and hogwarts will be under sharia law.

oh and it will be in 3D.
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>>63902546
from hogwarts to /x/
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>>63902792
The majority of women in france ARE skinny
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>>63902755
Strong 9/10
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>>63901670
It's not like two random people are assigned to be married.
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Soon Harry Potter will be an Indian and Ron will be an oompa loompa
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>>63902851

To elaborate a bit more, if this were some adaptation unofficial thing, fine, do whatever, but this reads like its not, so the casting is stupid.
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>>63902607
CUTIE.
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>>63902369
His sexuality is relevant to his backstory

Dumbledore had a romantic relationship with the wizard version of Hitler, Grindelwald the dark wizard Dumbledore is famous for beating during wizard WW2. That's the dude who Dumbledore beat to get the Elder Wand off of (Holy shit J.K. wtf were you thinking?).
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>>63901939
I DEMAND THIS POST BE DELETED
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>>63902219
blacks don't feel fear
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>>63902546
a work of art.
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>>63901456
Nobody has that
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>>63901137
As a black dude all I have to say about this is:

WE
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>>63902851
It really isn't. Its just like all these disney straight to dvd movies like Lion King 2 and shit like that.

Its a play. There are a million stupid unessary fan fiction sequels to movies and other plays
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>>63901137
They got magic
She can be transblack
I don't give a fuck
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>>63902792
If France cares about free speech, then why did Charlie hebdo get shot up?
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>>63902551
the vast majority of young readers are not gay.
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>>63902973
WUZ HERMY-ONS N SHIEEEEEEEE
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>>63901328
I think Rowling tried to do serious literature, going so far as using a pseudonym, but then realized she's can't write adult shit and no one cares what she writes if it doesn't have Harry Potter in the title.
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>>63902990
they were a shit satire paper
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Can you post Dirty Potter on blue boards?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ4lCnZ-WyA
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>>63902990
I didn't follow it but I am pretty sure it weren't the french people who did the shooting.
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>>63903035
She got good reviews under her psuedonym but her neighbor revealed who she was like the attention whore that she was, so Rowling sold out and is making kiddie shit that exploits the nostalgia of 30 year old man children. I know grown adults who are hyped for these kids novels. I can't understand it.
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>implying anyone on this board has ever been to see a play

Hermione's race was never stated in the books, only that she had unruly curly hair and came back from a holiday looking "very brown". Sounds pretty open to interpretation to me.
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>>63903154
An asshole ayran boy harasses her without using a racial slur, I think that is evidence enough.
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So does Mudblood mean nigger now?
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>>63903239
are there any racial slurs in HP? no, because the prejudice the muggle borns suffer is meant to be symbolic of racism/classism.
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>>63903335
In 10 years, when Rowling needs cash again, she will openly state that this was always her intention.
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>>63901400

Shut the fuck up, cock lord
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>>63903239
He used the equivalent of a racial slur in their society.
They care more about those gosh darn mudbloods than those gosh darn niggers.
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>>63903154

JK Rowling approved years worth of book cover art which featured a white Hermione each and every time.
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>>63903393
>Wizard wants to cull all members who aren't full blooded wizards
>not a thinly veiled hitler copy
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>>63901939

She meant ashy of course.
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>>63903430
>taking "white face" literally and not understanding it can mean pale with fear or shock
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>>63903376
There were no racial slurs because it was a children's series. Symbolically, yes, Hermoine is the token minority character, but there is little indication that the was indeed a minority. Given the fact that Voldemort was pretty much Hitler, she was symbolically a Jew.
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>>63903493
You wouldn't use "white face" if you were describing a pale black person, would you?
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>>63902369
>Why? Why tell us that?
Because somebody asked. That's literally how it happened.
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If I ever become a Hollywood director I'm going to make a movie about a popular fictional black character, or maybe even a real one like MLK or Malcolm X, and cast a white guy to play them.

Then when people give me shit I'll say "I just don't see why race is an issue here :^)"
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>SHE WAS NEVER MENTIONED AS WHITE IN THE BOOKS
>yes but the art in the books shows her as white and in the movie is white and this continuation is canon so she should be white
>WHY DOES IT MATTER? ITS A KIDS BOOK ANYWAYS, JK SAID SHE WASNT WHITE IN THE BOOKS YOU RACIST

Fuck PC culture 2bh.
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>>63901939
>confirmed metamorphmagus
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>>63903335
Spat out my drink.
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>>63903493
Black people literally never look pale with fear or shock
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>>63903569
this shit is retarded but thats a really bad example dude. i mean malcolm x and mlk are basically defined by their race
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>>63901137
>caring what a dipshit who wrote about faggots riding broom-sticks grabbing balls in the air has to say

She's not a good writer. Who cares?
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Official Prisoner of Azkaban book cover.
Who's that behind Harry?
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>>63901400

The fact that the same passage pointed out Ron's freckles clearly means the context is "both of them have gotten a lot of sun".
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>direct new star wars movie
>cast luke as black trans disabled asian pre-op female
>i dont see why race is an issue to you
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>>63903669
So you've never heard or read the expression "the blood drained from their face" to describe anyone who isn't white?
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>>63901328
it's Hollywood
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>>63903705

Ron.
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>>63901538
The other races all do fine on their own and don't give a shit because they have their own cultures to build instead of stealing one from someone else

Except the Native Americans but no one cares about the losers
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>>63903741
Not that anon but I have heard pale.
Never ever seen WHITE to refer a pale black person.
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>>63902202
Good arguments.
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>>63903705
>THE COVERS DONT MEAN SHIT
>JK ROWLING PROBABLY DIDNT EVEN HAVE A SAY IN HOW THE ART WAS DONE

This was an actual point made by a Ledditor.
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>>63903705
Fixed that for you f.am
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>Every character ever should be straight and white and anything else is just pandering to sjws

How do you racist subhumans function in day to day life? How boring do you want every piece of media to be?
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>>63903705

Why the Harry Potter covers are so damn shitty?
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>>63903802
What?
She fucking commissioned the shit.
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>>63903725

Because ron never has freckles and is not a ginger?
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While I am not black and probably will not ever feel like a minority, I would probably feel offended by this if I was black imo.
An author/director shouldn't blackface their characters to pander for my money. That's bullshit. Where's the films using interesting, preexisting minority characters? Where's interesting original minority characters? This rush to turn white characters into some other gender or race or orientation is a shallow and lazy attempt to widen their audience as much as possible. They don't care about the racial equality that they advertise. It's pitiful.
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>>63903848
>>>/reddit/
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>>63903886
Mah nigga.
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>>63903865

Reflects the content.

>>63903802
Writers don't pick the cover, their publisher does. Even NDT got one of his books censored by the publisher.
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>>63903873
He's a filthy mic though so he freckles easily.
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>>63903886
Don't speak for minorites, shitlord.
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In 10 years, the Harry Potter musical in London will have an all-Pakistani cast to better represent the UK
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>>63903848

How does changing up the racial diversity or sexual orientation of a cast in any way shape or form make a given piece of media "less boring?"

Are you saying that just become somebody is another race, they are different from a white person in some manner besides solely their skin color?

Are you a racist, Anon? Because you sure sound like one right now...
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>>63903901
It was a serious question, when you see a character that's not a straight white male do you automatically get angry?
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>>63903886
Its patronizing.

It is implying black people have no empathy. And everyone should only be able to relate to people of their own race and gender.
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>>63903848
Haven't you noticed how when there are minority characters 99% of the time their personality is just stereotypical shit?
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>>63903865
I like them desu
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>Constantly grade A student
>black
ok guys whatever magical fantasy you want to believe.
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>>63903865
The international ones in particular were garbage.

The newer ones, both American and British, are great.
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>>63903978
child please
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>>63903464
Illustrations are just an interpretation. It is not the text.
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>>63903688
>i mean malcolm x and mlk are basically defined by their race
WOW
It's 2015 and you're DEFINING people by their color?
Please do us all a favor and kill yourself you fucking Nazi
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>>63903965
Have you ever been in a room with only straight white people who all have the same shitty values? Nightmare.
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>>63904002
apex kek
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>>63904002
Kek
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>>63903978
I'll fucking take your bait.
It doesn't make me angry.
Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury is a beautiful example.
Nick Fury is a white guy and he always has been. Samuel L Jackson does a good job, so it's cool.

When you change the canon of an established series that literally already has 8 movies, one kickass tbqh theme park, and a bunch of other shit simply to gather more diversity points, that's annoying.
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>>63903978
Do you get angry when you see a straight white male?

Because it sure sounds like it.
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>>63904026

>Illustrations are just an interpretation

No they weren't.
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>>63904072
Nope, just when they're disproportionately represented in mainstream media.
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I can't wait until the publicist for:
>Catcher in the Rye
>Lord of the Flies

Come out and say all the kids were actually black and transgendered
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>>63904085
yes they are, as different books move to different publishers cover art gets swapped around like crazy, see lord of the flies.
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>>63904085
If you don't think illustrations are symbolic, then you know nothing of books.
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>>63904048
>Have you ever been in a room with only straight white people

Only when my friends and I hang out.
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>>63901137
>Hermione is and always has been black, according to J.K Rowling.
then why did she have her described and portrayed as white in both book and movie?
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>>63904136

I agree, I think to solve this nigs should just try making more original IPs that are actually about their race.
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>>63904136
>disproportionately

You realize straight white people make up a vast majority of the western worlds population, right? If people were proportionately represented there'd be way less darkies and shitskins on TV than there are right now
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>>63904062
But Nick Fury as being white is also well established canon. you don't mind him being black because you like Samuel L Jackson, if they cast some unknown black actor however..
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>>63904136
What is disproportionately in your opinion.
Because if you look at oscar representation black people for example are a higher percentage of winners than they are part of the population.

Which according to your fucked up logic means there should be less.

Unless you want 50% white and 50% black.

Or how many races you think there are.
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>>63903757
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>>63904191
She's an octaroon. But Voldemort understands the one-drop rule for mudbloods.
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post where she said that
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>>63904270
This is a troll thread. There's no room for quotes.
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>>63903757
Black americans have no culture because it was stripped from them by whitey.

Rowlings characters are all British so it doesn't really make a difference anyway
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>>63904251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnj-RoETnAU
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>>63904072

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
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>>63902704
not really, as at the same time it promotes the whole mystical black character/witch doctor stereotype that's been perpetuated in hollywood for decades

if they made harry black then i guess i could see it that way but one supporting character isn't really pandering
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>>63903848
white is boring? how racist.
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