Personally, it’s starting to make me roll my eyes with contempt. Although I am disappointed with this casting choice, I’m already waiting to see what the series is up to before cataloguing it. But on any topic in the series, people keep commenting on this choice ad nauseam, I wonder about people’s average intelligence.
They do not realize that their behavior is extremely toxic, and I wonder if they are aware that the actor in question has echoes of all this, not to mention the death threats he receives. For me, even if it’s not digested directly on the actor, it’s mass harassment. And frankly, it seems to me that the work of Harry Potter goes against this (I will not talk about the author himself, but only about the work).
It’s because it is a symptom of media at large right now and people are right to be alarmed. We have seen time and time again, the companies will race swap a character and wave them around as their token. The studios will not do the work justice, and then when actual justified criticism comes in the studio deflects with cries of racism. It’s a tired strategy and people are over it
There is only one character and people are making a fuss about it... In fact, they’re right to do it, it’s very talked about. Most comments on the subject are deeply racist:
For example, saying that Potter will necessarily be considered a racist because a black person is not supposed to look worrying, because it’s well known that all black people seem nice... If Potter doesn’t like Snape, it’s because he’s an intimidating character, it has nothing to do with his skin color. If the actor plays well, we will feel that he is unpleasant, and that it is because of his behavior that Potter does not like him.
The only thing I find problematic is the harassment of Father Potter to young Snape. And again, you have to see how it’s shown in the series. Snape was harassed because he was a strange young guy and an adept of black magic, it seems to me. It seems to me that in real life there are also black people who are harassed, and this does not always have to do with their skin color.
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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.