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Sep 8 '12
racebending: supportiveblackfriend: I’m not sure if any of you know this. The two actresses at the top were both casted as Lavender Brown. Lavender Brown was a black girl BEFORE she had to kiss Ron.  While there is a throwaway line in Book 6 about Lavender having similar skin tone as Ron, there is no reason why Lavender Brown could not have stayed brown in the movies—especially since the roles of characters of color in the Harry Potter films, like Cho Chang and Dean Thomas, were substantially cut down.

racebending:

supportiveblackfriend:

I’m not sure if any of you know this. The two actresses at the top were both casted as Lavender Brown. Lavender Brown was a black girl BEFORE she had to kiss Ron. 

While there is a throwaway line in Book 6 about Lavender having similar skin tone as Ron, there is no reason why Lavender Brown could not have stayed brown in the movies—especially since the roles of characters of color in the Harry Potter films, like Cho Chang and Dean Thomas, were substantially cut down.

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    I also imagined her as black while reading, mostly because of Lavender from Matilda:
  2. cwnerd12 reblogged this from mimisaurus and added:
    Am I the only one who initially imagined Lavender as Black? idk why she just popped into my head as a Black girl whenI...
  3. mimisaurus reblogged this from tegananscombe and added:
    You do realize that POC are human beings right Like with complex emotions and diverse personalities and shit It’s just...
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    *le sigh* I’m kinda tired of this showing up on my dash. Has it occurred to anybody that the reason they recast Lavender...
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    Uggghhh. UUGGGHH. C’mon casting people. CON-TIN-U-IT-Y. IT’S IMPORTANT.
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    Also casing an actor of color for a canonically white character is subversive in many ways. Where as casting a white...
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    you guys do realize that rowling had the final say in casting and also a lot of the extras were given names so it...
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