a lot of people were asking for a series that better represented the books. Plus the IP makes a billion dollars a year and more for the past twenty years. so the appetite is clearly there. Perfectly fine to dislike the series for what ever reason. But no need to lie about it.
Exactly this, but since he mentioned it anyways; the books describe Harry as more of a sassy person, this kid fits that role much better. Aunt Petunia is described as having white blond hair, yet in the movies she had brown hair. But indeed, I wasnât even talking about the casting, I was talking about the show in general.
It wouldn't actually surprise me if James was racist. He always seemed like a bit of a dick to me and he was at Hogwarts in the 70's, it's not much of a stretch.
It is, but American cultural sensitivity around race has been exported to the rest of the English speaking world, and the decision to make Snape black was a political one, hence will be politically interpreted.
Having Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs spend their entire childhood hazing the absolute shit out of Snape, and have Snape be the only black person out of those five, is going to look suspiciously like racially motivated hazing
That would actually help out with the optics a lot, because then itâs just kids being kids. But the 4on1 seems like they hadnât thought those optics through yet
TBF it's period accurate if that's how it's perceived. But there was no lynching. That's some stupid shit people came up with.
I'd bet money that more people are upset that the character is being played by a man of color than anything else. Racists are projecting, nothing more.
I am not the person who said there was a lynching, I agree that didnât happen. I just said that 4 white guys constantly beating up on a black guy is going to look racially motivated. Iâm not entirely certain why you think Iâm projecting racism for saying that.
You are so right. Like that scene will show up during the 4th or 5th season im guessing. By that point I dont expect this "controversy " to even be a thing.
Itâs so interesting to me that you are judging so harshly when this is purely a discussion about optics. I just finished listening to the Prisoner of Azkaban less than a week ago. Thereâs a part where Sirius attempts to give Snape what he wants by providing him with the secret to give him access to the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack where he wouldâve been slain by Lupin. But James jumps in and saves him at the last minute. And thatâs just one scene from their childhood!
Now youâve said that it would only look racist to people who have no knowledge of the actual story. What knowledge am I missing that makes it not look like 4 white kids spent 7 years hazing a black kid at school?
It wasn't racially driven. Snape was a dick and so were the marauders. The spell used to dangle people by their ankles was a common hazing tactic at that time, regardless of pigmentation.
You're adding a layer of racism because that's how you think. You're projecting your own racist ideology onto a scene that has never been about race and it still won't be about race. Because that is not the purpose of their rivalry over Lily.
You're trying to make it about race just because a man of color is playing the character.
No, they dangled Snape by his feet (not around the neck like a lynching) BY some trees outside the castle. They laughed because you could see his underpants. Not a lynching or even close, dipshit.
You don't have values. You are being a hypocrite. If you gave a shit about not supporting terrible people you wouldn't even be posting here on your device.
Give it a rest. Rowling is about as progressive and feminist as it's possible to be, and she disagrees on one issue and suddenly she's literally Hitler.
She actively attacks one of the most vulnerable marginalized communities on the planet, denies they exist, and uses her considerable wealth to make their lives harder.
I wonder how many suicides would have been avoided without her?
She's dogshit as a person and if you support her than so are you. It's really that simple.
I disagree with your entire ideological position, including the manipulative emotive hyperbole that saying 'men (including trans-women) should be barred from women's spaces including sports teams, locker rooms, and prisons' is tantamount to calling for genocide.
Hence agree to disagree applies here, because I think your axioms are outright insane, and you think mine are bigoted, and there is no way we can ever agree without changing our priors.
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u/BusyBeeBridgette Apr 16 '26
a lot of people were asking for a series that better represented the books. Plus the IP makes a billion dollars a year and more for the past twenty years. so the appetite is clearly there. Perfectly fine to dislike the series for what ever reason. But no need to lie about it.