That post is fascinating!! On levels. Three of them are just from the movies/videogames. An additional three, at least, never speak. Another two are centaurs; do centaurs have the same conception of race that humans do? I don't remember anything about that in the books.
I'm really unsure of what to make of the interpretive ones. On one hand, I don't want to erase the presence of POC when there are so few of them. On the other, after she called Newt Scamander swarthy and then he turned out to be Eddie Redmayne, I'm wary of assuming that her descriptions of someone as "the dark one" or referring to their tan or brown skin means that they're of color as opposed to having dark hair and eyes/having spent a lot of time in the sun. And given everything to do with how she's written magic in North America, I'm similarly wary of assuming she took the description of someone as reminiscent of a Native American very seriously, and can certainly believe that she meant to evoke a stereotypical look without saying anything about the Dumbledores' race. Though we know she's sat on information about their identities before...
Feel a bit like banging my head into a wall mostly. And I think now feeling safe in concluding that, indeed, there are no adult WOC in all 1,000,000+ words and 7 books of the HP series. Which. Wow.
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Date: 2016-07-26 02:39 am (UTC)I'm really unsure of what to make of the interpretive ones. On one hand, I don't want to erase the presence of POC when there are so few of them. On the other, after she called Newt Scamander swarthy and then he turned out to be Eddie Redmayne, I'm wary of assuming that her descriptions of someone as "the dark one" or referring to their tan or brown skin means that they're of color as opposed to having dark hair and eyes/having spent a lot of time in the sun. And given everything to do with how she's written magic in North America, I'm similarly wary of assuming she took the description of someone as reminiscent of a Native American very seriously, and can certainly believe that she meant to evoke a stereotypical look without saying anything about the Dumbledores' race. Though we know she's sat on information about their identities before...
Feel a bit like banging my head into a wall mostly. And I think now feeling safe in concluding that, indeed, there are no adult WOC in all 1,000,000+ words and 7 books of the HP series. Which. Wow.