She claimed that she "never wrote Hermione to be any specific race" and that anyone who assumed she was white must just be ray-cis, except her hair was written as being reddish brown in the books, Rowling signed off on multiple book overs where she's depicted as white, and despite being heavily involved with the films she agreed with casting a white girl in the role.
Rowling loves retroactively changing aspects of her characters to make her fiction more woke.
Wasn’t she insisting Hermione was black a few years ago?
She claimed that she "never wrote Hermione to be any specific race" and that anyone who assumed she was white must just be ray-cis, except her hair was written as being reddish brown in the books, Rowling signed off on multiple book overs where she's depicted as white, and despite being heavily involved with the films she agreed with casting a white girl in the role.
Rowling loves retroactively changing aspects of her characters to make her fiction more woke.
True. And when the first Harry Potter film was being cast, she said of the very White Emma Watson: "Emma is Hermione."