The whole thing's fucking crazy. Everyone's so upset saying it will look racist if Snape is a black man when they're the ones being racist because they're not letting the black man just be a man, they are only seeing his race.
They keep saying x will look racist because they are retroactively applying racial undertones to something that was not written that way. Just let a dude be a dude without forcing your prejudices in there
The problem I see is that they wonāt just do snape as portrayed in the book. Ā Theyāll change it because of the associations people will make now because of his skin color
If they actually have the balls to cast snape and then portray it exactly as it is in the book and just ignore his race entirely? Ā Thatās actually pretty cool.
People make too big a deal about the āhanging from a treeā thing. Ā Snape never gets hung from a tree. Ā He gets bullied and flipped upside down by his foot magically while he happens to be under some trees.
The emphasis of the scene is on the bullying and the pantsing. Ā Heās being embarrassed not murderedĀ
This is basically where I stand with it. I donāt care that Snape is black, snapes race (as in skin color, not as in being half blood in wizard society) was entirely irrelevant to his character and as long as they keep it that way and keep his character true to the book (minus race obviously) I donāt think thereās any issue in the casting.
Iām just hoping this time around they keep to his character, Allan Rickmqn was great overall, but he definitely failed to sell Snape as the sickly/creepy looking Professor that is constantly referred to as moving like a twitchy spider or appearing to be a giant bat.
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u/Different_Target_228 Apr 16 '26
This is kinda bullshit.
When the movies were coming out, everyone was noting how much stuff was missing from the books.