J.K. Rowling Shuts Down Racists, Tweets Her Love For Hermione Being A WoC

The announcement for the casting for UK stage version of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ happened today, and we were delighted to hear that talented actress and Woman of Colour Noma Dumezweni would be the theatre version of Hermione Granger. 

Others were not so thrilled. Not because they were concerned that Dumezweni wouldn’t do the part justice, or that she didn’t suit the role; they were upset because of the colour of her skin. 

All day, Twitter has been flooded with douchenozzles like the below:

why cast someone who completely differs to the description depicted in books that created characters we know so well? #CursedChild #Hermione

— Amy Coupe (@Coupeface) December 21, 2015

#Hermione is now a Black? Puzzling that a Mudblood became a part of such an ancient and noble pure blood family. #IsNothingSacred

— Rohan Danait (@riddermark42) December 21, 2015

Hope Ron’s still ginger and Harry’s not had his eyes lazered #confusing #Hermione #CursedChild

— David Gibson (@Web__Fox) December 21, 2015

Not trying to offend anyone, but please. Stop acting like we owe blacks something. She was written as white, keep it that way. #Hermione

— ChrissyMartin (@Starkamite) December 21, 2015

NOMA DUMBZINI IS A JOKE. A BLACK #HERMIONE? HELL FUCK THAT

— Jayy Sorath LaVeyGOD (@Jayy_LaVey) December 21, 2015

#Hermione just reeks of SJWs trying to “diversify” everything until all movies, video games, and books look like… pic.twitter.com/1qX5s1PjJ7

— Sarah Roberts (@girlgamer1108) December 21, 2015

Making white characters black isn’t diversity, it’s pure laziness. And yes Hermione is white as seen in sketches. #Hermione

— Michelle Catlin (@CatlinNya) December 21, 2015

Also sorry, but a black #Hermione, I still think is weird. Maybe I’ve to get used to it, I don’t see why she needs to be a POC. #CursedChild

— Corneel Vanfleteren (@QuillDust17201) December 20, 2015

#HermioneIsBlack This is fucked up. This is worse than Voldemort.

— jontheguy (@jontheguy_) December 21, 2015

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION #hermioneisblack ps gas all nigs https://t.co/KGlnMImK1r

— Swindler’s Wish (@fashybandicoot) December 21, 2015

YES LETS CELEBRATE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CHARACTER YOU’VE LOVED SINCE CHILDHOOD!! Fucking whore #hermioneisblack https://t.co/ugyqETXFG1

— Swindler’s Wish (@fashybandicoot) December 21, 2015

I know, right? Firstly, gross racist people are gross and racist. Secondly, these people very clearly missed the extremely obvious message of the Harry Potter franchise: all that ‘Mudblood’ stuff was actually an analogy for racism, and one of the main lessons is that equality is necessary. 

But who better to re-explain that than HP author, avid Twitter user and wonderful human J.K. Rowling, who is always around to calm shit down and save the day: she said that she absolutely ‘loves’ that a Person of Colour will be the next Hermione. 

She also proceeded to pulverise the theory of all of the racists (who were complaining that ‘she doesn’t fit the description in the books’), by actually repeating Hermione’s literary descriptors. And skin colour ain’t a one of ’em:

Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione ?? https://t.co/5fKX4InjTH

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 21, 2015

YAAAAAASSSSSSSS!

Source: Twitter. 

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