Hermione isn’t a real person. An author can make their characters whatever they want at any time for any reason with no regard for established cannon. Writers do it all the time. They may be terrible writers, or even terrible people, but none the less they “own” the character.
Ditch the bitch and stop complaining about skin tone.
Does the fact that a character isn’t real mean that we can’t point out when an author contradicts themselves? Even if she claimed that the contradiction doesn’t exist?
Does referring to someone in a thread about that person mean that you’re a fan of them?
Does mentioning where someone has contradicted themselves mean that you’re complaining about the thing that they contradicted themselves over?
Did you put any thought whatsoever into your post or was it just a knee-jerk response?
It was prevailing thought at the time though too (~2000s), I remember my mates and I looking at activists with some measurable annoyance and disdain. I don’t think her attitude was so far out of whack with the general vibe
I didn’t really interpret it that way. I took it as “look how annoying people who complain about social justice are”.
I don’t think she literally supports slavery but it was clearly an allegory for what she views as annoying activist types.
Rowling said on multiple occasions that Hermione is her “idealized self-insert”.
So I don’t think she’d use her own self-insert to say “Look how stupid people like me are”. Doesn’t really make sense.
She also said that she was Black, so I’m not sure how trustworthy she is on the subject
IIRC she said she never specified Hermione’s race, which is technically true. But at one point she did physically describe her to be fair skinned.
And as having pink cheeks
Hermione isn’t a real person. An author can make their characters whatever they want at any time for any reason with no regard for established cannon. Writers do it all the time. They may be terrible writers, or even terrible people, but none the less they “own” the character.
Ditch the bitch and stop complaining about skin tone.
What an odd response
Does the fact that a character isn’t real mean that we can’t point out when an author contradicts themselves? Even if she claimed that the contradiction doesn’t exist?
Does referring to someone in a thread about that person mean that you’re a fan of them?
Does mentioning where someone has contradicted themselves mean that you’re complaining about the thing that they contradicted themselves over?
Did you put any thought whatsoever into your post or was it just a knee-jerk response?
It’s just weird to fixate on skin tone. There’s plenty to criticize JK about, but that ain’t it.
It was prevailing thought at the time though too (~2000s), I remember my mates and I looking at activists with some measurable annoyance and disdain. I don’t think her attitude was so far out of whack with the general vibe