Still profiting off JK Rowling i see

@CallMeNutribullet @NashvilleQueen
*WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS
PP is referring to the casting of a black woman as Hermione in the HP play. + her daughter as black.
Which would have been great if the rest of the cast was diverse - or at least looked nothing like their movie counterparts.

However
a) Those two were the ONLY ones out of the original cast to have been 'diversified'. Everybody else was made to follow the books meticulously. Down to the Weasley siblings' red haired and Draco's blonde they were clearly recognisable even without their names being said. Why single out Hermione who was the main female lead?

b) There was plenty of opportunity to write in a black character. One of the two leads - Draco's son, whose mother isn't in the books. Delphi, a girl of unknown parentage who later features heavily.

But no, these characters are too important to have a black person play them.

Instead Hermione who is
a) A supporting character in THIS play
b) White (she has bushy brown hair)
c) A well established character whom the majority of people know from the movies

is blackwashed - and to make it 'add up' her daughter is also black, the irony.

It's tokenism and as a POC I find it rather disappointing. They had the chance to have a diverse cast with roles written for them but they blew it.

Arabella I’ve been waiting for at least two years for someone to explain to me the precise details of the robust diagnostic technique used to identify which are the 80-85% of children who will desist from gender confusion post-puberty and which are the 15-20% who will persist (since it would be highly unethical to subject any of the former to unnecessary medication which could have a life-changing impact on them) and still no advocate of puberty blockers has been able to do so, but perhaps you’ll have more joy in your vigil

Have a warming nightcap of your choice while you’re waiting.

According to Twitter, it looks like Radcliffe’s redemption owes more to his publicist than to his conscience…

Watson needs to pay her fucking tax before lecturing the rest of us.

Nor did Helena Bonham Carter, or Gary Oldman, or Michael Gambon. Is it only the young actors who you believe should forever be in her debt who should fight her corner?
Did any of the three adults you mention join in the lynch mob?

Robbie Coltrane on the other hand said to the Radio Times:

"I don't think what she said was offensive really."

"I don't know why but there's a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended."

"That's me talking like a grumpy old man, but you just think, 'Oh, get over yourself'"

A cream tea vigil is one I can really get behind, by the way. I think we should have these more often. I mean, I can just keep going. If anyone wants to join me you are very welcome but you have to bring your own scones.

THATS MORE LIKE IT.

I mean, this is a vigil, not a hunger strike.

MN keeps going down - I keep thinking floods of people have logged on and are posting all the evidence of JKR's sins.

But - there is still nothing.

Love your persistence Arabella - I think we should probably all take you out to afternoon tea at the Ritz by day five. And I bet you still wont have a rational answer!

it's not like they can go back in time and turn the job down based on what they now know
@scarpa but what do they now know? Poor Arabella has been shivering out in the cold waiting for someone to tell us.

That's very kind, FindTheTruth. What a lovely set. I notice the presence of 1. cake and 2. booze are somewhat lacking on that tray, though, if I may venture a small grumble.

Suffragists gotta suffer, I suppose.

There’s an article in the Telegraph today saying much of what’s been said on this thread.

Day three of my vigil.

And still, no quotes or evidence to show JK Rowling's 'bigotry'.

And you kind of have to imagine the actor does have bright green eyes, otherwise all those teachers staring into his going "you have your mother's eyes" seem a bit creepy!

Characters often change appearance and sometimes sex between page and screen or from production to production. All female Shakespeare for example. Or indeed, any female Shakespeare given the originals were acted by an all male cast. The occasional fictional character even changes sex in their own timeline - Orlando, Dr Who, various sci-fi. Clue's in the "fictional".
Two of the three main characters in HP weren't a good match to their book descriptions. Harry's supposed to have black sticking up hair and green eyes. Hermione's supposed to have frizzy hair and big teeth. I don't think skin colour generally gets mentioned in Rowling's writing. I thought Strike was at least mixed race from the way his hair was described. The only reason I ended up thinking he was white was Galbraith doesn't shy away from grubby realism and realistically he'd have come up against racism at some point if he wasn't.

Why did she even write about polyjuice if she didn't think people could transform into other people?

*btw, just thinking out loud here, how come she doesn't believe a man can turn into a woman but she's perfectly happy for a white person to turn black? (ie Hermione)

A race change is ok for JK Robert, but not sex.*

Changing race and changing sex are both entirely fictional constructs so perhaps your point isn't as strong as you think it is. Anything is possible in the imaginary world. The real world not so much. Sort of why literary fiction is so popular ...

That's precisely my point, though - you seem to be saying that because the 3 leads' careers started in the film adaptation of her books that they're not allowed to say that they disagree with her. Which I think is a weird thing to say, they don't owe her that when she was sharing a view they disagreed with

Er no I can't speak for others but that's not what I'm saying. I referred to their lack of any support for Rowling in the abuse she was receiving. I haven't said what you claim I've said.

You then, for reasons which escape me, started referring to Bonham Carter et al. I'm not aware of any of them rushing to condemn Rowling the way this trio did.

A lot of comments in thread seem to be along the lines of "How DARE they, they owe her". And... no, they don't owe her that. If people on the thread dislike them because they think they're wrong, fine, but don't make out like the issue is that they're disloyal insubordinate kids.

@PurgatoryOfPotholes

Eek those tweets…..

She’s a slimy smug self righteous little fucker isn’t she?

That’s a lot to be embarrassed about later in life.