mountaingirlatheartco:

reignofbooks:

whatlovelybooks: But why can’t she be black? People are allowed to head canon her as black if they want to. I’m personally all here for a black hermione. I think it’s awesome! Her being played by a white actress doesn’t mean shit to me. EDIT: also, her being head canon as black by people isn’t effecting you at all so I’m not quite sure why you have such an issue with this *sigh* why are people like this

1. The books aren’t specific about Hermione’s race.

2. African Americans/mixed raced girls are more known to have “bushy hair”

3. Hermione is called mudblood through the series, kind of like how mixed raced people are called “mulatto”.

4. There is ONE like that is found that may have mentioned her skin tone: “ “They were there, both of them, sitting outside Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor — Ron looking incredibly freckly, Hermione very brown, both waving frantically at him.” - The Prisoner of Azkaban

5. Who’s to say she isn’t a person of color?

6. Why can’t women of color want to feel represented. It doesn’t change the story or the meaning behind her character. If you’re offended by “brownwashing” it means either a.) you feel threatened or b.) you think Hermione is less of a person or women or icon if her race is changed. Why should only POC project themselves onto white characters and not feel offended?

7. J.K. Rowling herself has liked two tweets by fans who made fan art or posted articles on this exact same possibility, so if she has no problem with it, then why should anyone else?

8. Marketing companies don’t like diversity in books. They will want authors to change the race or make the character colorless all together because they know books about white characters make more money because they are marketing to white people.