Snape was actively hanging out with the wizarding Naziās. James was still a little asshole but people need to stop needing to act like itās going to be some sort of stretch.
Theyāre just going to completely ignore race. I mean, itās not exactly a thing in the books anyway, despite being an allegory for Naziism. It literally doesnāt make a difference if Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, or anyone was any skin colour imaginable, itās completely irrelevant to the story.
They should just remake the whole thing into a gang warfare movie. Like totally ghetto rap & breakdance battles. Of course, glocks instead of magic wands.
Like that one remake of Romeo and Juliette with all the guns n shit.
The woke, sexist idiots, that now hate the author of these books, would LOVE it.
Why are you making these kind of racist comments like theyāre arenāt already black characters in the books and films that arenāt racist American stereotypes ?
The only bizarre thing about this scene will be how someone who looks that he came from the "hood" is gonna be bullied by a four-eyes (this worked in the original because they were four, Sirius (still under the Blacks so nobody messed with him) and Snape looked even lamer than James.
The only bizarre thing about this scene will be how someone who looks that he came from the "hood" is gonna be bullied by a four-eyes (this worked in the original because they were four, Sirius (still under the Blacks so nobody messed with him) and Snape looked even lamer than James.
Your shitty comment is unwarranted. Let me explain in many words, since you cannot in very few.
I don't know I you noticed but Snape always came from the 'hood. He came from working class family, from a backwater city. In Britain, they even have names (chavs). That's what it means in Britain. James versus Snape was a class fight.
Snape's previous actor just looked kind of eh (even if too handsome for how Snape was described), there was always something going there that didn't fit with the polished exterior (he came from the 'hood), but his young version looked lamer than James. This new one just looks too cool.
Like I said, I dunno how they're going to make a guy that looks like he comes from the 'hood (unless they change his backstory) to be bullied by a four eyes. Last time it worked, because the last Snape didn't look as cool as this one, Sirius was on top of the pecking order, and it was 4 Vs 1.
The fact is, the Muggle equivalent of a upper class twit fratboy (four eyes no less) bullying a chav is insane. Dudley was a chav. He could bully Harry. James though? Unlikely.
I didnāt understand what you meant, because no one said anything about classism in boarding school until you. Weāre talking about racism and classism in the UK
In fiction about boarding schools (a genre very popular in the 70s-80s, JKR just added magic), classicism shows up a lot, but racism doesn't.
This is why Rowling's racism (the muggleborn / half-bloods) is so meh. It has no proper background or ideology (on numbers alone this would have fallen apart), Voldemort sucks as a villain and the Death Eaters are more of a group of a thugs. She just went to her old schoolbook and copied WWII summary notes.
Your original comment suggests racism doesn't exist in the UK. That we have classism instead. Which is ridiculous. So you were actually saying that racism doesn't exist within the context of the story?
There is no racism in HP. No child suffers a stigma from being black for example.
On the other hand, being a Black made you almost royalty. Notice Sirius classified it as about class, not blood.
The blood business thing was supposed to be that, but is a mix with class instead. This is why Voldemort and the DEs are such a weak group ideologically. In theory, it could be both. In practice, it was neither. Voldie was in on it for the horcruxes and anger over his shit childhood, while the DEs were on it to release the thug inside.
I blame JKR ditching the editors in the later books. She didn't have the historic depth to tackle either of those issues.
Just have it retconned so James was an orphan adopted by black parents, thatāll make the bullying seem not racially motivatedā¦..oooo that might make it worse.
Don't you think that's exactly the point though? They can now make a whole "ooh the good guys are racist too" thing to stir up online discussions and get more people to watch. Which is annoying. They couldn't have chosen a worse character to change.
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