Could be. If the poster wrote what is written directly below the pic in this article, then I think you are right. To me, it just seemed like an unnecessary GOTCHA. Like, Rowling says "I never stated that" and random fan says, "oh yes you did, here in this tiny irrelevant detail that could also be read metaphorically".…

I’m not doubting your info about India and Oz. I’m just saying that in my experience in India, I’ve never met anyone who knows the movie unless they live or have lived in the West (as has Rushdie for most of his life). Generally, I think that when people play up the idea of there being shared universal mythological…

I think that recognizing you have a default anything is super important. We all do it. Insisting that your default exist outside your head is when it becomes problematic.

Ha ha. Maybe they are old like me because it never would’ve occurred to me to do a digital word search. Or maybe this is a work of troll art, and first they did a digital word search and then they went and got the actual book of their shelf and looked it up and photographed it. You know, to make it look like they…

I think movie Faramir is an improvement on book Faramir, actually. He is a much more interesting character and more human, too, imo. Plus he has way more motivation to act the way he does in the movie because of the shit with his asshole dad. I don’t know who Draco is...

I think it's pretty clear that she wrote Hermione as white and that she probably just didn't think too much about it as her whole worldview tends to be that of a white, British middle class person. I agree also that it makes no difference if the gal who plays her in the play is black. Rowling obviously doesn't care…

BTW, that scumbag is the driver of the bus, just in case you want to read more horrific things that he said.

Yes I’m aware of that. It’s spot-on with my comment:

Totally. But if it happened, he would likely be one of those lucky drunks who become the life of the party, not one that slurs and rants and falls down in a pool of piss. The whole thing about Bond is that he is never humiliated. Even at his lowest (when he has a shoulder injure and shoots his girlfriend cause he…

Yes I totally think it can be interpreted that way! Good call.

Exactly. I find it hilarious. Because usually hardcore scifi fans tend to be secular or religious moderates. (Not always, but usually.) But they have the same need for great stories, for myth, to be a part of a collective fandom, etc- and then they go bickering about canon and trying to make their mythological world…

Please note that I said “especially in the Potter universe”. In our universe, Hermione’s skin color would have a huge impact on her personal story. In the Potter universe, I don’t think so. Though to be fair, I’m not a big Potter fan so perhaps I’m incorrect. But my very brief and casual visits to the Potter world…

Wizard of Oz is a great example. The classic movie is nothing at all like the books. Then of course, who can forget The Wiz? I don’t know what Wizard of Oz has to do with Bollywood (other than the fact that it’s a musical) and I’ve never heard about it being popular in India. None of the Indians in my own family have…

Partially it’s because I’m a big ol’ nerd myself. When there is inconsistency in the films themselves (all the same story) it troubles me. I mean, that whole thing about the force being about midichlorian count? I’m still not over that shit. I have to breath steadily and repeat a mantra about how it doesn’t really…

I think the Potter stories told in the books are over. If Rowling wrote another sequel and in that new sequel, Hermione was suddenly a black woman even though she was white previously, that would be weird. But this is a play, so the format is different- it’s the same universe but it’s in someone else’s hands so I…

I’m sure that makes sense to an anthropologist, but I just think it's neat that we have multiple versions of who was boning Guinevere. Is Jesus an asexual monk or the patriarch of a harem? Was Robin Hood living the thug life or was he a bleeding heart pinko commie? All depends on the times.

At some point in life, Hermione decided she wanted to change her skin color. Being a wizard, she did it. If you are the sort of fan who is overly troubled with the consistencies of irrelevant details, then you can just tell yourself this to fill in the gap in your brain.

You know what’s funny about that? These people, who are so obsessed with canon, are hardcore fans and yet they don’t understand the way mythology works. When a story becomes a big enough deal in a culture to become mythology or culturally iconic, then it becomes full of inconsistencies and interpretations and changes.…

I think what is more surprising is that someone had to go through all the Potter books searching to find that one reference to her skin color.

Yeah, given the fact that she had to make an immediate response while still feeling the shock, it was a decent statement. She managed to NOT insult Harvey as well as NOT saying something gracious about him. "Everything happens for a reason" is better in this context than "Everyone makes mistakes."