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[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

well there's the (only) asian character whose name is literally "Cho Chang"

or the one black person (of two!) named "Kingsly Shacklebolt"

oh and just for fun i'm pretty sure the one coded-irish character is constantly causing explosions? but we're getting into p fuzzy recall territory tbh, and i'm sure there's plenty more.

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

He's not just coded Irish, his name is literally Seamus Finnegan, and yeah he's most associated with blowing shit up

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Patty O'Carbomb-ass name

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

jesus i forgot that was his fucking name

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

technically there's four Black folk in the Harry Potter books, but Rowling goes out of her way to not mention Lee Jordan despite Lee being a quidditch shoutcaster and allegedly the best friend of the Weasley twins, or Angelina Johnson, despite Angelina being Gryffindor's Chaser (god what an awful name for a sports role in this day and age) (and didn't she date one of the Weasley twins, too?) and she made Blaise Zabini a straight-up Death Eater-aligned Slytherin, so... Yeah, I'm gonna drill a couple more screws into the 'racist' sign she's wearing

I'd say there's five but I don't have the spoons to have the "Hermione is a black girl, there's no such thing as a tea cracker who needs a perm put in her hair for a school dance" argument with burger cracker liberals

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

i mean as you can see i'm in no position to be arguing the finer points of these books with anyone! but also i am curious about the perm stuff. is it just bc it makes cracker look like poodles?

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Most perms are ridiculously destructive even to coarse Afrikan hair-- a white girl doing that to herself, ESPECIALLY with any kind of regularity, is a recipe for straight-up baldness by the time she's thirty. Acid stripped, dry, and split-ended if she's lucky.

[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

My mom got perms every month or so for decades, so I'm not sure that's true. Maybe they use different chemicals for natural hair?

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

My mom actually had grey hair as a kid, so she coloured her hair basically all her life, and same as you, didn't really affect her long term

[-] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Are they canonically black or is it a movie thing?

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Canon was always really cagey about how she was supposed to look, but she was described with coarse hair and described as needing a perm for it in two non-consecutive years; that's all I need to perceive her as Black-- especially in a setting where I know the author can't help but mistreat Black folk.

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Doesn't he also try to make alcohol by magic?

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

i seriously hope not but i'd be 0% surprised

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

If I remember rightly, there's a scene of him trying to turn a drink into some kind of alcohol and it exploding in his face. Cannot remember whether or not it was whiskey, but knowing Jowling....

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

god i hate being able to read

[-] GoAdventureTo6665RutledgeDriveFairfaxStation@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

she's like a massive unionist and even included a bit about how the IRA were just muggles who were jealous of wizards and so made bombs so they could match them in a pottermore post iirc (also iirc the ministry of magic doesnt recognise the sovereinty of the republic of ireland so there's just a single ministry of magic for both countries)

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Least cucked woman in Scotland, they should take her money and give it to that old woman who wanted to stake the corpse of Margaret Thatcher

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