‘Harry Potter’ HBO series eyes Paapa Essiedu for Severus Snape role

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On 12/6/2024 at 12:55 AM, Oriane said:

Snape's skin is described as pallid, which I've always figured was very white. 

Also, yes J.K Rowling didn't specify the skin color of most white people in the book, but you know very well that every POC in the book is made very clear, either by direct description or by their name. She didn't specify the color of white people because it's the default color for her. She can say all she wants that she never specified Hermione's skin color, you know dawn well she always imagined her as white.

That’s my thing with people saying it’s main canon hermione is non white lmao like guys jk Rowling has some VERY suspect treatment of nonwhiteness in these books cmon lol if you want to see her that way, amazing! But I think it’s a stretch to assign jk Rowling’s intent to your interpretation. Neither is more important than the other but they’re distinctly different and if we’re critiquing a text we do need to be honest about said distinction. I love the interpretation I just know it is not jk Rowling’s bc that woman wrote race into the names