What the hell, people?

[blamebrampton]

A ticker just rolled across the bottom of the morning news: 'JK Rowling joins actors in defending casting of black Hermione.'

HOW is this even a thing? We know three things about the way Hermione looks: she has bushy brown hair, she has large front teeth to begin with, and she probably has an epic side-eye given how clever she is and how much stupid she has to deal with when it comes to things like pure blood privilege. None of that says 'must be white' to me.

Can we not focus on the important things, such as get the chap playing Ron some red hair dye asap and HOW CAN IT BE that they have case YET ANOTHER actor as Harry Potter without looking for bloody green eyes??!!

As expected, my flist greeted the casting news with: 'Cool, awesome actor!' Because we have all actually read the books. One day, news producers will take their ticker notes from informed and engaged people, rather than the loudest knobends on Facebook. Alas, this is not that day,

Comments

[khalulu]

Eyes are often a color that's hard to pin down in one word. My eyes are blue-gray-green (with an amber tinge around the pupils). I call them green because I can't claim they're blue, and there's too much color for gray. I agree that pure clear green or gray eyes are unusual.

There are several Georgette Heyer heroines with light brown hair (Frederica, in the book of that name, and Sarah Thane, in The Talisman Ring) or mouse brown hair (Jenny, in A Civil Contract, and Miss Morville, in The Quiet Gentleman; and I can't find my copy of Sprig Muslin, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lady Hester Theale also had light brown or mouse brown hair). It's true that they are initially overshadowed by showier (often younger) beauties, or even considered plain, but they are appreciated in the end. And they are great heroines!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I MUST read Georgette Heyer one day. I've tried a few times but always get distracted and accidentally reread Austen instead. But now you make me think on it, I'm pretty sure that Anne Elliot, the greatest-ever romantic heroine, has mousy brown hair :-)

[khalulu]

Austen and Heyer are somewhat different pleasures but I've greatly enjoyed them both.

I think Jane Austen is generally pretty vague about what people look like - although we all know that Elizabeth has fine eyes!