• MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is it true that the centaur from movie 1 had more lines than all the black characters in all 7 books?

    And then modern fans get mad at black Snape in the TV show (if that gets to finish. My bets is it will patter out like the fantastic beasts movies)

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      1 day ago

      Fans get mad about black Snape because it would instantly make Harry look like an ultra racist without rewriting half the book.

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          22 hours ago

          Because half the plot of the books are Harry being suspicious of Snape based on basically just looks and a gut feeling at first and then hating him progressively as the books go on.

          You can picture it in your mind “Oh Snape is very sketchy, he looks different then all the other professors. I know he is a bad person… I am going to prove it” with the visual background that he is like the only black professor and just one of a few black wizards shown.

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, so that they can sell merch without paying royalties to the actors from the original movies, who didn’t align with her bigotry.