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J.K. Rowling: Critics of Black Hermione a ‘Bunch of Racists’ (Hermione is Black Now)
Breitbart ^ | 6-6-2016 | Daniel Nussbaum

Posted on 06/06/2016 6:30:19 PM PDT by ghosthost

But it was the casting of Olivier Award-winning black actress Noma Dumezweni as grown-up bookworm Hermione Granger that caught most media outlets’ attention; in the films, Granger is played by white actress Emma Watson.

“I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ — that is, lost color from her face after a shock — that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with,” Rowling told the Observer in a recent interview. “But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”

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To: fieldmarshaldj

What’s a mione? is that anywhere near the now, as in I wonder who’s kissing her now?


41 posted on 06/06/2016 7:26:07 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ghosthost
Make Hermione a 65 year old transagesexualracial manwomanchild
If you don't love me, you're a bigot


42 posted on 06/06/2016 7:32:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: ghosthost

I hope she will use all her many resources when my entirely Central European Slavic, Germanic, and Hungarian production of Shaka Zulu comes out. Anyone know if there is a young Austrian actor like Schwarzenegger for the title role?


43 posted on 06/06/2016 7:32:54 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

When I heard that name as a kid, I thought it was a naughty part on a lady. It sounds like it.

“I schtuped her !”

“Where ?”

“Right in Hermione.”

“Ah. Who hasn’t ?”


44 posted on 06/06/2016 7:34:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ghosthost

Gee, blatant PC pandering. Who’da ever thunk it?


45 posted on 06/06/2016 7:35:42 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: OldNewYork

Arnie’s Mejican love child looks just like him. Oddly, more so than his kids with the Kennedy spawn ex-wife.


46 posted on 06/06/2016 7:35:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Organic Panic
So many good choices!


47 posted on 06/06/2016 7:38:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ghosthost

Instead of racially misappropriating poor herminone why not use an existing griffyndor that was in the bleeping movie for chrissakes.....

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Angelina_Johnson

I mean she is just one of the many colourful women and men in the background of the movies....... just begging to have their characters fleshed out.... nope.... rowli gs got rich and became lazy with her “mary sue” herminone.....

She done jumped the magic shark...


48 posted on 06/06/2016 7:39:18 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: RightGeek

Thrres a deadpool meme here for “ looks like tom foley and helan thomas had one ugly night of secks”


49 posted on 06/06/2016 7:40:39 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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And let’s not forget the JKR announced after the last book was released that Dumbledore was homosexual.

Whatever...

Mark


50 posted on 06/06/2016 7:44:06 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: hoosierham

I totally agree. That last Miles book was total crap.

I also read the Dirk Pitt series until he interjected the NW Passage was open due to global warming and navigated by pleasure craft.


51 posted on 06/06/2016 7:48:32 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: pogo101
What's really nutty about this is that she DID write some of the characters as Black! For instance, Kingsley Shacklebolt, the accomplished auror, and Dean Thomas, one of Harry's classmates.

Mark

52 posted on 06/06/2016 7:49:50 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Oh, who really cares? The product is J.K. Rowlings. I really have no problem with this....fiction is fiction.
The woman can make the fictional character chartreuse for all I care.

Fast forward a few years: Hermione is a transgender, born a male and surgically changed at birth to be a girl.

Fast forward MORE years: Hermione has BOTH genders and can boink or be boinked.

Fast forward MORE AND MORE years; Hermione becomes a wombat. Get it? Part WOMan and part BATtleaxe.
Sorry.

53 posted on 06/06/2016 8:00:50 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: ghosthost; ClearCase_guy; chris37

54 posted on 06/06/2016 8:03:23 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: ghosthost

If Rowling wanted Hermione to be black, she would have made her black right from the start like.....

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone:

Angelina Johnson is described as a tall, attractive black witch with long dark hair that she usually wore in braids.

Lee Jordan is described as a black boy with black hair and dreadlocks.

Dean Thomas is described as having dark hair and dark skin and being taller than Ron Weasley.
**Interesting fact: Dean’s physical appearance was only described in the American edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. J.K. Rowling explained on her website that the reason this description was left out of the British edition of Philosopher’s Stone was that her editor “thought that chapter was too long and pruned everything that he thought was surplus to requirements.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

Kingsley Shacklebolt is described as a tall, bald, black wizard who wore a single gold hoop earring. He had a slow, deep voice that was said to be reassuring.

Half-Blood Prince:

Blaise Zabini is described as a tall boy with high cheekbones, dark skin, and long, brown slanting eyes in chapter 7.

https://www.quora.com/Which-characters-in-Harry-Potter-books-are-black-How-do-we-know

This is Rowling’s lame ass way to show how open minded she is. She’s always pandering to the left.


55 posted on 06/06/2016 8:04:32 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: ghosthost; All

It is clear that this is just Rowling bowing down to pressure to be politically correct.

She changed Dumbledore to gay, just before he died.

Now she had changed Hermione to black.

Both are very clear attempts to please the gods of political correctness.


56 posted on 06/06/2016 8:12:42 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: SoFloFreeper

There are references in the book to Hermione’s white face as she peeks out around a tree.
And if the book said she was black, the movies wouldn’t have starred Emma Watson.


57 posted on 06/06/2016 8:18:46 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ghosthost

Hold on...wait...wait...I’m checking my GivAShite meter...and, no, nope, I don’t.


58 posted on 06/06/2016 8:21:07 PM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: Chgogal

Fluid gender is worse than transgender.

A transgender is 80%+ of the time a mentally ill man who wants/thinks he’s a woman, fewer than a quarter have the surgery, so the majority of transgenders are mentally ill guys with male plumbing demanding access to women’s spaces to validate the delusion.

Fluid gender isn’t even consistent on the delusion. Today I’m a man, tomorrow I’m a woman, whatever I feel like, it is fluid. It is also a category that lets a guy use the women’s bathroom today and the men’s tomorrow, and because it is a category, they can say that and defy categorization.


59 posted on 06/06/2016 8:21:19 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ghosthost

Come on, we all always knew Lord Voldemort was the good guy.


60 posted on 06/06/2016 8:21:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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