Uh oh internet about to rage cause Hermoine is black
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Uh oh internet about to rage cause Hermoine is black
Hey if Lavender Brown can go from black to white.
Then Hermonie can go from white to black
Man, I hope this gets a book or a movie. There's no way I'd be able to catch this play probably.
You just know he's gonna have PTSD.
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Hey if Lavender Brown can go from black to white.
Then Hermonie can go from white to black
Hey if Lavender Brown can go from black to white.
Then Hermonie can go from white to black
The tragedy here is that Ron and Hermoine are not divorced.
Uh oh internet about to rage cause Hermoine is black
Yes and Rowling already responded to that:
J.K. Rowling ✔‎@jk_rowling
Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione
I love black hermione and like i expressed in the other thread, her being black should not be a problem.
Still, Rowling is full of shit with that reply, when the cast was first announced many months ago (with no pictures) and she originally said that, people where quick to fish a quote on the books that clearly described Hermione's face as "white", not to mention how disingenious the statement is.
"Oh yeah, I never mentioned her skin, yup, I just approved every depiction of her in every media to portray her as white and i admitted publicly that she was my self insert, but by all means, she's race ambiguous!"
I mean, Rowling, please! Just let her be portrayed by a black actress and let that be it, don't try to bullshit your way into a few more minutes on the spotlight.
I love black hermione and like i expressed in the other thread, her being black should not be a problem.
Still, Rowling is full of shit with that reply, when the cast was first announced many months ago (with no pictures) and she originally said that, people where quick to fish a quote on the books that clearly described Hermione's face as "white", not to mention how disingenious the statement is.
"Oh yeah, I never mentioned her skin, yup, I just approved every depiction of her in every media to portray her as white and i admitted publicly that she was my self insert, but by all means, she's race ambiguous!"
I mean, Rowling, please! Just let her be portrayed by a black actress and let that be it, don't try to bullshit your way into a few more minutes on the spotlight.
JK Rowling didn't draw the covers so I mean, that's more to the artist's interpretation of the characters. But she did have say over them and didn't correct them, but maybe she didn't feel it was that big of a deal. Plus the UK art and the US art is different.She was white on the covers, no? In the chapter art as well I believe. It's hard to remember because characters other than harry never appeared on them with any sort of frequency.
Visual accuracy in plays is kinda thrown out the window so it's not a huge deal.
book covers aren't ever hard canon, since they also tend to change a lot even for the same book when reprinted
Except for the actual chapter images that show her as white too? Or how about every single book cover for every region whether it is NA or UK or Asia, or the movies etc. Even her own character sketches had her as white.
J.K. Rowling never specified race in the books because she knew Hermione was white and wanted everyone to assume that. It is why every other non-white character from the Patel sisters to Cho Chang to Dean Thomas who are not white had their skin color specified.
And then let's not try to ignore Emma Watson perhaps cementing her look in our minds. I think this casting is great, should be a great play, but let's not pretend up until this play Hermione wasn't intended to be white or won't be white if there was ever another movie sequel or book.
uhm, the art for the books was never 'canon'. It wasn't drawn by Rowling herself.
Besides she's the fucking author, she can do what she wants.
uhm, the art for the books was never 'canon'. It wasn't drawn by Rowling herself.
Besides she's the fucking author, she can do what she wants.
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
They can't be wrong about their own intentions though, regardless of how others interpret their text. I have mixed feelings about the whole death of the author thing.Authors can be wrong, for example no matter how much Orson Scott Card wants to be a homophobe and denounce homosexuality there is no question that there was some homosexual tension within Ender's Game
I have mixed feelings about the whole death of the author thing.
There's also the line in Prisoner of Azkaban "Hermione's white face was sticking out from behind a tree." (ch. 21, pg 401 in the US Scholastic Press hardcover)
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
She can still change her mind though
If she wanted to write that Harry denounced his marriage and was suddenly gay in this play, that'd be ok. If Hermione is black in this adaptation, then that's ok.
Who's the elf?
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
Who's the elf?
Who's the elf?
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
She can still change her mind though
If she wanted to write that Harry denounced his marriage and was suddenly gay in this play, that'd be ok. If Hermione is black in this adaptation, then that's ok.
Im not feeling it.
And that Ginny almost looks as her grandma.
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
Is it me, or is the Sorting hat actually Oogie Boogie?
Reminds me of her copout with Dumbledore being gay. Ignoring it for every book, adding a few lines of questionable dialogue in the final book, and then once all sales done, hype down, oh and Dumbledore is gay. If she had any backbone or resolve she would've introduced it in a natural and meaningful way.
Her race was never stated in the books, but other than Ron and the rest of the Weasley's being the most ginger people on Earth, no one's race was ever stated, except for when they weren't white. I have no doubt that JK wrote Hermione as white (she's shown as white on several covers of the book), but in the end, it doesn't matter. This is a play. This play will be done all over the world and they'll all be cast as various races at some point. Cast the best person for the job, regardless of race. I like the look of this actress as Hermione and, since I'll likely never make it to London, hope they put a performance on video at some point.
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.
Stop calling that "concept art", she drew that two years after the first book was published. She probably based it on the art that the publishers chose for the books (where did you read that she approved every single cover and chapter art? That seems unrealistic for a new author's first book, where she didn't even have control over the *name*).
Here is her own hand drawn concept art from 1999. You can see what she envisioned Hermione as. Plus she approved every single cover and chapter art.