>J.K. Rowlinghas a message for any Internet “idiots” who took issue with the castingof black actress Noma Dumezweni as grown-up Hermione Grangerin the forthcomingHarry Potterplay:“Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”That’s what shetoldThe Observer, in a new interview published Sunday, about the backlash Dumezweni’s casting inspired from some corners of the Internet.“With my experience of social media, I thought that idiots were going to idiot,” Rowling,no stranger to interacting with people online, told theObserver.“But what can you say? That’s the way the world is,” she said. “Noma was chosen because she was the best actress for the job.”
>Rowling, 50, also expanded on her earlier support of Dumezweni’s casting, which shetweeted in Decembersoon after the news broke.“I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ – that is, lost color from her face after a shock – that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with,” Rowling said. “But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”Dumezweni has received support from other stars, too:Emma Watson, who played Hermione in theHarry Potterfilms,tweeted her excitementabout the news in January.
You guys dun fucked up you didn't even showcase the covers and illustrations and the fucking movies that all show Hermione as a pale white girl with freckles.
Lincoln Cox
Seems kinda dumb, but the writers should be free to do what they want
Owen Perry
I think it's high time for a black voldemort and death eaters, I'm sick of the slytherins always being represented by FUCKING WHITE MALES, Where is the fucking diversity?
Nathan Reed
yea writers should be able to write whatever they want, since that's their creative freedom. however, don't expect not be lambasted by fans for retconning shit just because you want to play favor points for this SJW fad.
Noah Bell
I would rek those titties m8 if you catch my drift
Luis Edwards
I don't think you understand. She's trying to retcon the notion that Hermione is white. Because in 2016 having white characters is just so uncivilized.
Brandon Perry
>"PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME" -JK Rowling
Owen Moore
Her whole life is a JK, Harry Potter sucks.
Ayden Butler
GOOD TELEVISION & FILM THREAD
Nathan Scott
She has a nice pair 2bh familam
Aiden Green
I seriously can't understand why anyone gives a shit in the slightest If Rowling was dead and someone did this without her consent, maybe I could understand But as it is, this seems like people getting upset for the sake of it. No one pays attention to harry potter anymore. It's like tumblr's favourite book. Rowling is an outspoken sjw
Who the fuck cares? What is it that people are taking offense at?
Jace Barnes
>50
Still would
Nathan Cook
Oh god I remember all of these. I wish I could read it all over again.
Ryder Allen
>constant capeshit and got isn't plaguing the board >this is Senpai
Parker Wilson
LMAO The genderswapped, SJW version of Markus Persson.
Jacob Smith
>I thought that idiots were going to idiot YA author's thoughts on racism and integrity
Adam Rogers
is she retconning anything? She never said hermione was explicitly white portraying her with a black actress isn't explicitly saying she's black
If they release a film of this in 5 years with all the old cast returning but emma watson replaced with a black actress, then people can complain
Ryan Kelly
Give up. Reddit has turned this board into a worksafe Sup Forums. There is nothing more to be done.
Ian Nguyen
There were blacks in Slytherin though. But I see your point.
Nathan Jones
See Its about a major film and book character and its not ablut her portrayal by a black person. Its JK rowling insistance she was never white to begin with.
David Cox
She's got at least another good ten years in er, I reckon.
Jonathan Turner
It's a pushup. You're more retarded than the idiots defending this shit.
Jordan Jones
>Its JK rowling insistance she was never white to begin with. But, unless I'm mistaken, she's not saying the opposite She's not now saying that Hermione was always black. This is just her way of saying that her character doesn't have/never had an assigned race. Why is this a problem?
Michael Cox
4u
Nathaniel Morales
No she actually has said she's not white because she's ignored everything about her being white in the books and films. The actress isn't the problem its JK saying that the character was never specified as white whixh is bs on all counts.
Thomas Lewis
>This is just her way of saying that her character doesn't have/never had an assigned race
Alexander Reyes
She just wants attention for being progressive. She said Dumbledore was gay before and now she's saying Hermione was black. It's pretty transparent that she's just making shit up as she goes along but who cares
Luis Cruz
>can't shitpost on /lit/ >better shitpost on Sup Forums
Mason Carter
>implying hermiones dentist parents in 80s london would be niggers This isn't present day. Shes retconning it hermione is white as bread. Not once did she give a shit about the cover art being a white hermione
Chase Rivera
TIL when black people get scares their faces turn pale white.
Ethan Collins
/thread
Christopher Williams
>STOP THROWING BACK IN MY FACE CONTRADICTORY THINGS I SAID >you only do it cause you're racist check mate logicians
Dominic Martinez
what's the issue? characters are written all the time without assigned races among other things part of the reason that good books are so universal is that the reader can project their attributes onto the protagonist
YA books give very little description of the main character's looks other than "smaller than the larger kids but able to hold their own" or some variation Harry isn't explicitly white either
He probably would be, but if a young British-Indian kid read it and imagined Harry as Indian ethnic like himself, he's not 'wrong'
I don't get why this upsets anyone
Nicholas Williams
If it was the other way around and whitewashed obama and the first chimp would be talking about it
Gavin Fisher
but why does anyone care? cover art isn't canon unless the author drew it themselves hermione isn't now canonically black
you can still read it and imagine her white
Adrian Hall
> novel casting choices > in theatre
Lol, anyone who is actually cares about this (in a play about a fucking book series targeted at children) should probably kill themselves.
Jaxson Garcia
Despite growing up with them and still generally having a good opinion of the HP series now I've never seen what JK Rowling looked like
Damn, she's hot. I feel odd
Jack Hill
She is described you fuck she has dentist parents from the 80s. She has naturally golden hair and freckles. 90+% of black people don't have freckles
David Clark
...
Justin Cruz
because of this, she'll always be black faced to me. not black. black faced.
Ian Baker
bullshit
if the author of a FICTIONAL book with an ASSUMED black character based on settings and previous adaptations said that the character could be white, it wouldn't be a big deal
the difference is obama is a real person when abe lincoln is being portrayed as black you'd have a case
Jason Carter
I think the author approved the illustrations to her book and there's a possibility jk drew her at one point not sure
Either way. Black people don't have golden hair and freckles unless they have dyed their shit and are actually mixed and not black
Josiah Harris
Is Rowlings just having one giant reverse cuck fantasy?
Joseph Nguyen
It would be a big deal. Difference is niggers don't write anything famous. Which is why they have to monkey on the backs kf previous film characters bc the have little originak stories to adapt with blacks
Nolan Barnes
>90+% of black people don't have freckles
define 'black'
Ayden Gomez
Because Sup Forums, and antisocial virgins who are mad at the world for their own shortcomings and cyclic, toxic lifestyles
Asher Rogers
Except the author has drawn the characters
Jordan Brown
Plays are not Sup Forums related you ape
Thomas Ortiz
>niggers don't write anything famous. are you retarded or just illiterate?
Aiden Taylor
Black as in black not mixed. Obama is not black he's biracial
Black could be anywhere. But niggas don't have freckles
Bentley Thompson
>You guys dun fucked up you didn't even showcase the covers and illustrations and the fucking movies that all show Hermione as a pale white girl with freckles. Don't you mean >Apologize you autistic shitposter. At least get it right.
Adam Green
>are actually mixed and not black Maybe hermione's mixed?
you know this is rowling's doing right? like, some random person didn't just recast hermione as black for shits
also, beasts of no nation is apparently a fantastic book and a great film but whatever
Joseph Jenkins
shhh user these are paid shills promoting her new book and the new movie
Ryder James
Are you suggesting most popular works in film haven't beem predominately white
Andrew Sanchez
>"Noma was chosen because she was the best actress for the job.”
But we all know that's not the case. That's what's so obnoxious about forcing social agendas down peoples' throats. They insult everyone's intelligence. Everyone knows that she was picked because casting her would garner publicity and controversy which in turn drives up revenue. That, and the people involved get to virtue signal to the world, fuelling their conceitedness in the process.
Julian Ortiz
The characters are all made up and most of them were not explicitly stated to be white or what have you. It's like other BBC-tier keking with making King Arthur a black tranny muslim and shit
Carter Watson
I think there's a point where an artist has to distance their own work and say it's too big to be their exclusive creation. take star wars and lucas, for example. Rowling has passed that point a long time ago but still wants to cash checks, be they monetary or social of value. should spielberg be allowed to take the guns out of E. T.? I don't know.
Jaxon Scott
>Maybe hermione's mixed? Mixed what?
Also >parents are dentists >is a witch >somehow has teeth like this This is the most illogical part.
Juan Reed
so, i mean, I don't want to be that guy but... noma has freckles
Parker Martin
How do you know she wasn't the best or at least decent though? Stage acting is dead and most people don't give a shit unless you have a film star in your production
Isaac Sullivan
I'm presetly engaged in an argument with a newpaper editor on this very subject. And i actually worked on the Harry Potter films (in VFX & design).
The only reference I can find to a description of Hermoine is this one...
Jayden Roberts
She's not mixed she's white like a white person. Whu are you triggered by white people that are descendants from white nations.
And I mean most books that have been adapted. Save recently are predominately white
James Green
Hermione was also never stated to be human. Maybe she's an alien?
Daniel Russell
Fuck her
Kevin Cook
>genre fiction writer calling anyone else an idiot He's right, but that doesn't mean he's not a schlock lowbrow genre fiction writer
Connor Rodriguez
I'm sorry but black or not, she is really, really ugly.
Ryder Peterson
It's actually in the book that she had bad teeth, but her parents told her to not use magic to correct her teeth. And then at some point she just decides to use magic to shrink her teeth.
Parker Ortiz
>parents are ENGLISH dentists
FTFY, it's a totally different level of dental care
Grayson Ward
Typo, it's Hermione's whiteface. See pic related
Brayden Walker
If you're willing to take the illustrations as canon and give them the same weight as the movie portrayals then you should be pissed about how Harry Potter is a fucking model by the end of the movies. He was always a skinny faggot in the books but nobody complains about how Daniel radcliffe was masturbatory material by the final two movies. The fact remains that in the books, Hermione's race is never specified. If the race of a fictional character whose race never had any influence on her character or her actions in any portrayal of said character really gets you this butthurt then you should probably stop consuming media in general.
Blake White
>Europeans
Cooper Watson
Why do you care about the race of a children's book character you complete manchild
How would it affect your viewing of the play
I bet you're not even going to watch it regardless of the race
Brandon James
>The only reference I can find to a description of Hermoine is this one...
Theres a drawing rowling herself made
White with freckles
Christopher Allen
That means like my bad writing lol.
Dominic Richardson
>Whu are you triggered by white people that are descendants from white nations I'm not triggered, literally the opposite I don't understand why anyone cares about a black actress portraying hermione
why are you so concerned that she's white? you know she's not real, right?
Carson Nelson
milf chebs are in her genes m8
Elijah Morris
>money-grabbing bitch profiting from this SJW propaganda as usual she just can't admit she wrote Hermione as white, can't she?
Connor Moore
Her teeth are described as big.
Not goofy, crooked and rotten.
They should also be fixed as you say.
Cooper Green
Sup Forums and reddit want to make a big stink about something even if it exposes them as manchildren
these autistic faggots probably get up in arms about my little pony or game of thrones too
just absolute neckbeard children's fare, embarrassing
Noah Nelson
>idiots are going to idiot
lmao holy shit she used a variation of nigs going to nig
Jordan Cook
>Why do you care about the race of a children's book character you complete manchild Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
William Miller
He said on /tv, on a topic he doesn't care about at all. Flying in to shit on everyone to say, "Hey guys! I don't care!" Cheerio cuck
Adrian Ramirez
that's probably a better argument than all this "I'm not racist but..." shit is hermione actually described as good looking by the end? cause if she is i have a beef with watson's casting
the thing that always annoyed me about emma watson's casting originally was that her teeth were too small - hermione was supposed to be buck-toothed and nerdy until she used that potion but this was like almost 15 years ago now
David Allen
>JK tell to the artwork draw Hermione as a white girl >Present day >A bunch of jews appears >Hey JK we will give you millions if we recast hermione as a nigga 'n shiet. >Give muh millions, plis. End of the story
Robert White
That's exactly what's happening
Daniel Ward
>tfw I don't really care about her race >tfw I care more that they picked the most fuck ugly black woman Hermione was never described as ugly.
This fucker is ugly.
Cameron Gutierrez
/play/ when, Hiroyuki-san?
Lucas Martinez
>You can read the books and imagine the character is white. >Black people can't read the books and imagine the character is black.
Why are white people told that race doesn't matter when it comes to blackifying established white characters, but then black people are told that race matters and if a story is full of white people they aren't represented and can't possibly relate to the characters?
Liberal hypocrisy is the funniest brand. It feels like its all based on arguments from 14 year olds.
Colton Foster
>cuck!
hey fagola, they literally WANT you to care. that's what gives the play attention and more dough. you fell for it.
Adam Bennett
Dumb animeposter
Asher Roberts
>irrelevant writer trying to get relevant again by using the latest trend
This bitch should just croak already.
Logan King
>How do you know she wasn't the best
Because the character is white. I don't know the actress, and I'm not doubting her talent or credentials. The reason she was cast though was to create a fervour for the play with controversy and "important" discussions that can be talked about in the run-up to its release so it'll remain in the public consciousness for as long as possible. I don't give a fuck about Harry Potter or the colour of Hermione; just don't insult my intelligence about why this woman was cast.
Aaron Sanchez
she self inserted herself as hermoine, then decided later she wanted to be BLACKED
Nathan Sullivan
one time I saw a thread on Sup Forums about how Battlefield was trying to destroy the white man's history by having a black guy in the game
all Sup Forums IPs should be banned desu, they probably are the ones spamming capeshit
Easton Martin
>you will never collect all of JK Rowling's tweets in three volumes >JK Rowling and the Quest for Relevancy >JK Rowling and the Pandering Retcons >JK Rowling and the Ramblings of the Attention Seeker
Samuel Garcia
If she was cast because she was the best for the job then what about the daughter? Was she cast for race or talent? Why wasn't she an asian actress? A white and a black can have an asian kid just as easily as they could have a daughter blacker than both parents.
Owen Perez
Have you actually tried reading the book or just saving things from online? I doubt hermione isn't descibed at all in the first twk books
Plus jk did draw her See I'm not evem being racist. Her physical attributes her hair and such are not privy to black people naturally ratted hair
Ian Richardson
Could you please post the original?
Logan Bailey
yeah whatever you say fedora
Cooper Gray
Is this all that's gonna be of tv and film discussion? A bunch of assholes on both sides whining about race/gender etc? This is depressing.