She’s a bleeping liar. She knows damn well she wrote Hermione white. Why not admit it and say any actor should be able to play the part, which is true? Why fake that she always meant her to be black? Liar.
Exactly. No one would care if she had initially conceptualized Hermione as black.
What everyone’s rolling eyes about now is this PC, virtue-signaling ret-conning of Hermione as black when she was white before, combined with the bull**** lawyering comments like “white skin was not specified.”