For the people arguing that Black Hermoine and White Hermoine are the same: they’re not

courtneycocoa:

Race 100% does matter here. Not only would a Black Hermoine give HP some desperatly needed representation, it would also change Hermoine’s story. A Hermoine who has to face racism in both worlds, who came to the wizarding world to get away from bigots only to find that she can’t, that there will always be someone somewhere who will hate her for being who she is, is different than the white Hermoine we got in the movies. Her experiences at Hogwarts would have been fundamentally different.

Would a Black Hermoine have cried when Malfoy called her a mudblood if people had been throwing the n-word at her since the day she was born?

How would a Black Hermoine, who’s seen what a mob of hooded white supremacists can do (and what they can get away with), view Voldemort and his death eaters? How safe would she feel at Hogwarts knowing that their children are sitting in the same room as her? She was almost killed her second year for not being “pure enough.” She’s heard those words before, this isn’t new to her.

Imagine what it would have meant for Victor Krum to fall for a Black girl who never seen anyone who looked like her be called beautiful? For Hermoine Granger to walk into the ball with Krum on her arm and be the darkest girl in the room. Imagine her standing out like a sore thumb in a sea of white faces and for once in her life feeling pretty.

It’s canon that the students of hogwarts make fun of Hermoine’s bushy hair. Imagine if on Hermoine’s first vacation home, she begs her mother to let her get a relaxer. She’s tired of being teased for having 4c hair. Her mother refuses and 11 year old Hermoine is sent back to school, her hair as bushy as ever. Over the course of the story, picture Hermoine learning that her hair is fine the way it is. Her fifth year, she decides to grow it bigger. When someone calls her hair bushy Hermoine thanks them. It’s a compliment to her now. By her seventh year Hermoine is rocking Bantu knots, twist outs, braids, and an afro that she wouldn’t trade for anything.

Imagine Black Hermoine sending her eleven year old Black daughter off to school, knowing that the system is rigged against her in both worlds and still having every confidence in her daughter succeeding. Imagine Ron worrying about things he’s never had to worry about before. Does he panic when the muggle police stop his daughter on her way home? Does he notice that his eleven year old daughter gets followed around in stores when he doesn’t?

Black Hermoine is still a genius and brave. She’s the same person but her experiences are different and that would affect her behavior. Implying that she’s identical to White Hermoine except for her skin color implies that white experiences are universal (they absolutely are not). What all of you “All Hermoine’s are equal and good so who cares of she’s Black or White??? 🙂 🙂 :)” stans are saying is that White Hermoine™ + Black Skin = Black Hermoine which is OFFENSIVE and UNTRUE. Cut that shit out.