Social Media Erupts Over Reported Casting of Paapa Essiedu as Snape in HBO’s Harry Potter TV Series

Where is the buzz ^ | 03 17 2025 | Diana Wilson

[yesthatjallen]

Well, well, well—HBO has done it again. Just when Harry Potter fans were cautiously optimistic (or at least resigned) about the upcoming TV reboot, Deadline dropped the bombshell that British actor Paapa Essiedu is reportedly set to play Professor Severus Snape, the eternally bitter, greasy-haired potions master. And let’s just say, the internet is not handling it well.

While Essiedu is widely respected for his performances in I May Destroy You and The Lazarus Project, many fans are losing their minds over the fact that Snape, canonically described as “sallow-skinned” and deathly pale, will now be played by a Black man. Others, however, are gleefully embracing the chaos.

SNIP

[SamAdams76]

I also heard that esteemed actor Robert Stillman is going to play the role of Aldius Bodgett.

When will the madness end?

[1ScrappyArmyMom]

It will crash and burn just like their horrid Lord of the Rings.
I don’t watch anything were characters are swapped out for DEI.

[Afterguard]

Hermione in a burka? Why not!? She’s just a little English girl isn’t she?

[Pilsner]

Snape is dyed in the wool SOB, an incel, with long greasy hair, who was bullied at school, because he was poor, and ugly, and socially awkward . Do you think there is any chance that Snape in the TV show will be the Snape in the books?

Me neither.

[Palio di Siena]

Morse (midsommer) was great - went for years - proper English for years.
All white - no blacks, gays, lesbos

[aquila48]

They are also working on a remake of “Roots” with Ron Howard playing Kunta Kinte.

[No name given]

Nor would I.

[No name given]

At all.

[MinorityRepublican]

…and they’ll have Hermoine in a burka...

If we are making Harry Potter in 2025, then this would be historically accurate.

[StolarStorm]

meh, it’s fiction without historical basis, so as long as he is a great actor it doesn’t bother me. It’s not like that black female who played a Viking Jarl. That was off the wall stupid.

[wardaddy]

I like you as a polite female poster but you’re always buck the trend on these subjects

Would you be so open minded about social engineering if it were casting whites in historical black roles?

I doubt you would honestly no offense

I had this discussion here 25 years ago

Folks then said oh wardaddy don’t be mean they just want a bigger audience

Well look now

We’ve had racial and homosexual agenda and so on forced on us for decades by the same agenda driven folks who howl when it’s turned back on them

Many of us were already sick of it when it began

Make a black original

If it’s good and doesn’t woke preach it’ll gain a broad audience

It’s no different than commercials where the white dad is always daft and clumsy

They wish to create an alternate reality the stupids will accept as actually real

Watch NFL commercials in a game span

It’s 80% black characters

A Martian would think we’re 90% black two parent households all preppie with a wise admired dad

[CoastWatcher]

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Hang on...........
I thought it was dogma that all “Bad Guys” had to be played by white males; and all heroes were to be played by LGBQTWITS.

[bdfromlv]

Yo baby Yo back that baby up

Yo baby Yo, back that baby up,

[bdfromlv]

like James Bond being played by Peter Dinklage

[bdfromlv]

I want Idris Elba to play snow white.