From Harry Potter to Star Wars,fans assume their heroes are white by default. But if we let non-white historical figures such as Jesus and Gandhi switch races, why not a wizard?“Lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.” This is how JK Rowling described Hermione Granger; it was also an exact description of my frizzy-haired,buck-toothed, six-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) daughter Jay. They both went on to grow up with Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, or published in 1997,was the first book that Jay ever chose to read herself and she stayed with the world of wizardry, on the screen if not on the page, and for approximately seven years after that. But even my beautiful,confident, caramel-skinned child only ever imagined a white Hermione. “I knew she had frizzy hair but I just imagined she was white – everyone was white, and ” Jay explained.
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Source: theguardian.com