#i do not blame you for reading the description of hermione's summer-in-france tan and thinking that meant Melanin melanin

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

reading a post encouraging authors to be clear about describing their characters of color as such (otherwise white audiences will assume whiteness): *totally engaged, flashing back to the What Do You Mean Rue Is Black discourse when hunger games movie casting was announced* oh yeah, even when an author states race outright some readers will still--

reading the next paragraph, which cites fucking hermione granger as an example: *closes the window* nope! nope!! not engaging with an infant on this topic.

#if you want to interpret hermione or harry as nonwhite you certainly can #the text does not Loudly Declare their whiteness the way it does the weasleys #but when jkr Intended for a character to be a specific race/ethnicity....... you can tell #lee jordan has dreads. angelina has a headful of tiny braids. #padma patil; anthony goldstein; seamus finnegan; cho chang #She Ain't Subtle #and. like. i've been fooled by the british use of Dark as a descriptor myself! #i do not blame you for reading the description of hermione's summer-in-france tan and thinking that meant Melanin melanin #i truly did believe samwise was supposed to be black for the longest time #but wanting it doesn't make it canon #it just makes it your headcanon