the-carol-of-peter-pettigrew:

downerpress:

bitterpunktrash:

I wonder if J.K. Rowling will ever actually write an important character as a minority, or if she will just leave it open and then claim it later when it doesn’t affect her sales so she can seem very politically aware

this! exactly.

Okay but she didn’t say “yes this is how I’ve always imagined her #officially canon” she says she LOVES black Hermione. As in appreciated the vision that other people have come up with

Not that it wouldn’t have been nice to have more representation explicit in the books but maybe it is POSSIBLE???? that she has since become morE AWARE?? that representation is important???? And out of respect for the influence of her series, is trying to do better now????

But that’s crazy. Everyone knows people never change, are always as ignorant as they were twenty years ago when they first started writing aNd defINITely wouldn’t do anything to give an impression to the contrary for any reason but to make themself look good

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