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Subject: Re: The New "Harry Potter" Kids Are Finally Cast
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 19:31:00 +1200
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On 2025-05-27 22:31:49 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-27 20:14:56 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> On May 27, 2025 at 9:33:14 AM PDT, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> HBO's HARRY POTTER Series Finds Its Harry, Ron and Hermione
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-harry-potter-series-hermione-ron-weasley-actors-1236230730/ 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> This time, Dominic McLaughlin will play Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton
>>>>> is Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout is the new Ron Weasley. In the
>>>>> films, those roles were played by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
>>>>> Rupert Grint, respectively.
>>>> 
>>>> I still think it's lame to just be remaking the books that have already 
>>>> been made into movies. It's not even like these movies were made 50 
>>>> years ago or something and there might be an argument that updating the 
>>>> SFX would enhance the experience. The movies are recent enough that the 
>>>> visual effects are more than sufficient.
>>>> 
>>>> And of course they seem to have race-swapped Hermione, but that's 
>>>> pretty much par for the course these days.
>>> 
>>> As they did with Hi-Ho’s character in the Percy lightning Jackson thief
>>> series. But then they didn’t have a chance in hell of replicating Daddario
>>> anyway.
>>> 
>>> There are funny snarks on the Facebook with people already screaming they
>>> won’t watch it and how they like how they cast Jenna Ortega and that 
>>> unless they make all the kids black and all the teachers trans they 
>>> must be racist.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> (I got to interview the original Hermione when she flew into LAX for an
>>>> awards show. She had a stalker who was not only threatening her, but
>>>> had started threatening Obama as well, so we intercepted Emma Watson at
>>>> LAX and talked to her to both let her know the guy was in town and to
>>>> see if she had any info on him that we didn't.)
>>>> 
>>>>> There were eight Harry Potter films and a series of three Fantastic 
>>>>> Beasts movies-- a spinoff of the original IP. Author J.K. Rowling wrote 
>>>>> seven Harry Potter books; the eighth book in the series was split into 
>>>>> two movies.
>>>> 
>>>> The last sentence makes no sense. It says Rowling wrote seven books. 
>>>> Then it says the eighth book was split into two movies. So were there 
>>>> seven books or eight books?
>>> 
>>> I stared at that for a moment as well. At first, I thought maybe she 
>>> didn’t write the last book but then I realized what they were trying to 
>>> say (poorly) was that there are seven books (written by her) but eight 
>>> movies because they made two movies out of book number seven.
>> 
>> There was also the sequel stage play, which was co-authored by Rowling
>> (although how much she actually wrote is a different question, probably
>> more like oversaw and 'corrected' the other writers' material). This
>> stage play had a black actress playing the role of Hermione.
> 
> I find it amusing that people are literally screaming SHE’S BLACK when I
> hardly see any definitive evidence of that. She is at most swarthy if
> you’re still allowed to say that, I guess they’d feel silly screaming SHE’S
> OF COLOR!

The new Hermione in the remake TV series is difficult to tell her race 
from just the publicity photo and it's not worht bothering to look it 
up.

The Hermione in the some productions of "Cursed Child" stage play were 
definitely black though, as was Hermione and Ron's child.
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