"OBSCURA EBONIS!" 'Harry Potter' TV Series Under Fire for Race Swapping KEY ROLE... Are You Fo Real?
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#HarryPotter #JKRowling #SeverusSnape
Im black and hear me out when i say this shit means absolutely nothing to black people. This virtue signaling needs to stop
But them lefty Dee mon krats ❤you! They wanna keep you getting $500/month, poverty, and then hand me down characters! Oh, they also put literal drug vending machines in their S-hole cities! Because of LOOOOOVE!
If they consider the best person for the part, why the complaint
You're not black and if you are you're an embarrassment
@@KemetledAfricaThe best person for the part resembles the character.
@@KemetledAfrica Because there is more to hiring an actor for a part than their acting abilities.
It’s crazy how they’re going to try to appeal to an audience that won’t watch the show because they hate J.K. Rowling.
Exactly, I don’t know why they would even bother to bend over backwards to this crowd…
Most of them already hate J.K. And are boycotting the series because of it…
Not to mention that they have all the evidence in the world that pulling stunts like this will cost them in the long run… They only have to look at their competitors biggest flops to know that people have had enough of this BS…
Let's be honest: most of that audience has no appreciable level of impulse control. They'll watch anyway and scream at the screen. But they have no money, so no advertiser wants to advertise to them.
Yeah because the game did so poorly. Oh, wait.
@@bghoody5665 I really love how every outlet, journo, even the game awards ignored the success of that game 😂
This should be top comment and 100% agree
Half Blood and Dark Wizard will take on a whole new meaning. Enjoy the backlash WB. You did this to yourselves
Don't forget Mudblood. This should be fun.😑
Or when black Hermione will be called mudblood.
It’s like a form of passive aggressive racism 😂 Give him the role that the character’s title is (Dark Wizard/ Half blood) smh 🤦🏾♂️
@@TheJusDon how much you wanna bet they'll make Voldermort a mean ol' white guy?
@@MrTobi013 I hate how Hollywood thinks.
One character they won’t race swap
Voldemort
The bad guy is always a white guy
Yup.
@@thomasherlihy-xm4vt if they put a black man as Voldemort BLM and antifa would be rioting on the streets tommorow
But that would be so ballsy a move that I'd be all for.
Missed opportunity. Samuel L Jackson could be the best Voldemort. Very age appropriate
@@blackscorpionstinger Sam Jackson proved several times he doesn't mind playing the rahcist character. And Voldie is definitely that in spades. Sounds like a good fit.
They foam at the mouth when Apu isn't voiced by an indian, but when it's time to faithfully bring a white character on screen, oh boi any colour but white is welcome.
The double-standards festival just keeps on going on!
Dude hank Azaria really disappointed me. He was an amazing Apu and he should have had the balls to stand up for his role.
That's the shit that bothers me too. People screamed all the way from hear to Denver when they cast Scarlett Johansen as The Major, even though she looked and sounded like the character and even though the creator of the manga praised the casting, but the schmuck from one random episode of Not Safe For Work who doesn't fit the role at all and those same people cream their pants over it and lecture others because "blind casting" or whatever buzzword they use.
We just need to call out their BS and just laugh at their stupidity
Kinda funny how they whined about how corps were "taking advantage" of all the non-white folks on products like Aunt Jemima and Land-O-Lakes.
So now there's no non-white folks on anything anymore.
Kinda played themselves lol.
Never stop to become non-buy-nary when it comes to w0ke products.
As a Harry Potter superfan, I was super excited when this was announced. If they race swap Snape I will not be watching a single second of this show.
Amen
Don't worry, even if they don't do it to him, they'll do it to plenty of other characters.
Or any race swapping.
Good. It's not meant for you to watch anyway. It's for kids. Use this as an opportunity to grow tf up.
@fundifferent1 It is for those of us who grew up with the franchise. And if you think it's solely for kids, you need to reread the books. Year Four, if not Year Three as well, is dark af. And they don't get any lighter with the other years.
Snape is Alan Rickman and Alan Rickman is Snape. RIP you beautiful man.
Yes, though honestly he was too old.
And he is also deceased
@@KemetledAfrica I'm glad he's not alive to see this 😢
No. He is Hans Gruber!
Alan Rickman made Snape iconic, not the other way around.
Criticized for white core cast by exactly whom?? Nobody bitched while those books and movies made billions.
What dives me insane, is that all of the people at HBO claim to be aware of racism,
but they do not see how making the man who Harrys father used to bully and who mother chose to not date, for the father, into a black man, will flip the whole story on it's head. Now the Potters will be the most evil people at the school.
Harry and Snape hate each other nearly the entire series. They think, for some reason, that a little white boy hating a black man won't be read as racism by the audience they're trying to cater to, whether that hate is earned or not. Your points are very strong. I hadn't thought about that, but you're entirely right, the plot gets entirely screwed up with that.
They're white and straight, so it checks out that they are probably racist, right?
Based.
@@infinityryvus What if James Potter and his son Hari were Indian? That's how they square the circle of black Snape.
@@infinityryvus Problem is the movie people will not see it in that light, funnily enough snape is portraied much better just like herminone, creating some twisted snape harry fanfic, people just forgot how despicable snape was and that his death was more than anything deserved. Just how people seem to forget that malfoy is a racist little shit (like the white boy with money ^^) but because some think that tom felton is hot he gets a pass^^, though in legal terms he was an adult and planned a murder and was a memer of a terrorist organisation, would at least be 25 years in Prison for poor old ferret.
I’m shocked! Shocked they didn’t hire the gay black Doctor Who actor, now that he’s unemployed after destroying that franchise.
Wasn't it destroyed when they made Dr Who female? I stopped watching after Peter Capaldi. Even David Tennant coming back couldn't get me to watch that disaster. Completely ruined the lore.
@@jenn9027 yup
@@jenn9027it was sorta garbage but Thirteen was at least watchable most of the time. This latest season however is just a travesty, the Doc is hardly ever the main character and is the first iteration that doesn't even SLIGHTLY feel like he is a reincarnation of the Doctor. Jodie didn't have the best run, but she didn't write the scripts nor choose the woke BS and she still felt like another version of the Doctor. Ncuti Gatwa does NOT... and it has nothing to do with being a gay black, as Captain Jack is my favorite character ever and is "pansexual" by definition and I love Martha Jones and Mickey who are black characters
@@variaxi935didn't call you racist, you don't need to defend yourself, sad that that's what we're dealing with because of how much fan hate these companies have dished out on people. I'm a big Buffy fan and liked Willow and Tara together, Tara especially, and I'm straight. Captain Jack is funny, Martha is smart, Mickey was a bit of a miss for me though. It's been awhile since I watched it. The freaking angel episodes are some of the scariest episodes, I always remember them more than most other things on the show. Bit of a tangent there lol. It took me a long time to warm up to new doctors, especially the Tennant to Smith one, I didn't watch classic who so I dove in late. Not a whovian like others, casual viewer. Just wasn't interested in a female doctor who and I'm a woman, so even I wasn't impressed with that flip.
@@variaxi935 Finally someone who agrees! I think Jodie did extremely well, given the shitshow she was given for a script. She at least felt like the Doctor from the very first moment.
Snape being black.. yeah.. straight greasy hair, sallow white face and long hooked nose. ANd he's yelling every other sentence (in the books). + The whole bullying students and bullying in his past and Half blood prince/Dark wizards things will backfire so hard on a black actor.
In the third book twice they mention hermione being white
She had a bright red sunburn
And in one part it said “hermiones white face poked through the bushes”
In the half blood prince Hermione gets a black eye and Harry thinks she resembles a panda 🐼
How dare you involke the source material! You must be a vitriolic bigot! I'm going to report you to the Morality Police!
White people in England.
Those were the days.
JK Rowling when she pandered to the wokies: I never said Hermione was huwite.
Thanks for this.
More to the point, Hermione is Rowling's self-insert character. She's admitted this. Hermione looks just like Rowling.
I’m gonna put it this way - if the actor has any integrity whatsoever, he would turn down the role.
Sadly, the vast majority of actors have ZERO artistic integrity (trust me, I'm an actor as well).
Most of them just want their face showing on the screen and a paycheck, whatever it takes.
@@Celso_Luis Considering this is shaping up to be a disaster, you'd think an actor wouldn't want to be involved here. This really feels like it's going to fail like Velma and The Acolyte.
They'll steal any role they can
@@Phantom-ph6xg I know and I agree with you, but actors are more often than not too self-involved to think through anything else that does not revolve around them being in the spotlight and getting paid. If you think about it, by their own rules, getting even remotely close to a J.K. Rowling project would be grounds for perma-cancellation (and the actor seems to be gay, so he is in the same category), but they just cannot put two and two together.
actors are some of the most narcissistic people on the planet, i doubt that. you would hope so, but it's not realistic.
17:00 *THIS IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.*
If they make Snape black, is James Potter going to be a racist?
My guess: Snape is now gay, and has loved James... Always.
Ha! It also makes Lily racist for choosing James.
@@shirw So?
@@JarlBarbossa So it introduces character traits and dynamics that were never meant to be there. The show hasn't even started filming and they're ruining it.
@@thisisfyne Racism is no more evil that childism, sisterism, parentism, cousinism.
@@JarlBarbossa By far the dumbest comment I've read all week, and misses the point entirely. Thanks for the laugh I guess.
Up next: The new Harry is gay for the Hispanic version of Ron, whilst a bi Hermione 'Mary Sue's' her way through the series. Thanks JK!
Literally just cast Adam Driver.
or Lee Pace
Not British. Yes, I know.
Driver may not want an eight year commitment.
The one guy who literally looks the parr.
No Trent Reznor, he'd have a field day
They cannot make it book accurate if they make Snape black, because they cannot depict a black man as cruel and sadistic towards children.
omg you're so right
stellar comment my dude
The problem is they will CHANGE the entire story to fit their forced narrative, despite what they claim. They will make the children "racists" to Snape and thus should be "deserving" of the punishments they receive....
Reminder, even though she does defend women JK Rowling is still woke AF.
It's like when you love someone for all their faults...but they make it EXTREMELY hard.
Yep, it really seems that people need reminding of this. So many were tripping over themselves to applaud her for supposedly being "based" on the restroom thing that they completely forgot how just a few years prior she was retroactively declaring Harry Potter characters to be alphabet people on Twitter
yes, absolutely she is.
@@slimjimpui It's funny how people forgot all that
Ye you're 💯 right
Why not just make him Kingsley Shacklebolt and stick to the fucking source material 😂
Half blood prince.... Dark wizard.... This is going to be glorious.
'My oh my! Tattle tale grey!'
Headline: "Harry Potter is racist?"
@@TheSnorlax7 It's on it's way to becoming racist.
Ron to Gryffindor boys - "This is Mad Eye Moody, he's hunting black wizards."
Dean - "Which wizards?!"
No black wizards the witch wizards are a different department.
Hard pass on Wesley Snapes.
I'm going to steal that to make a meme!
Now he would be a cool Kingsley 😂
@@Bilski86 Could definitely get behind that one.
😂😂😂😂
Blape
There are so many things that OG Snape did that are going to get REAL uncomfortable with Snape being Black. Like getting hung by a group of white boys under a tree, bullied partially for liking a white girl, or joining the wizard world of Notsees.
Lol, like they aren't going to remove anything that won't jive with their character choice... Retcon is fundamental to their agenda.
Being practically enslaved by an undead white man also looks kinda KKK for the Malfoys
I think they are going to have a field-day with that. Change it into him bein a victim of racism. 🤢
You think they'll include any of that though?
@@RedDeadRanger I think once they realize how bad a look that is, they're gonna start race-swapping the Marauders so they can include it.
The most racist thing about these studios is that they are suggesting that black people don't have their own stories and therefore they need to be inserted into stories where the incumbent characters are white. How about they tell some of the stories of black people? Preferably by not distorting them out of all reality like they did with the travesty that was "The Woman King". Or as any normal poerson would say, "The Queen". There is also an awful lot more to black stories than enslavement.
They do have fewer cultural stories, based on history or fantasy.
@@_Dovar_ Fewer maybe, but not none.
Because it’s Hollywood. They know little about the world outside the tiny borders. For them race is what they understand of it, the same goes as problem. Racism is only American racism and slavery. But they know nothing and don’t want to know about Middle Easter and African cultures. They could do history movies, fantasy based in their breathtaking mythology. Nope. They make swap race only with white characters. It’s honestly sad and a ta pathetic, because it seems they are whitewashing black actors to fit into a molde of equality and acceptance that actually is not such. He could be an amazing Shacklebolt. A badass character in the original material from the books.
It's about White Erasure. As long as they're getting rid of White people, that's all that matters. Notice every time we say race swap a White character is being turned non-white. It's always White Erasure.
Interesting that the is no movie or show for Blue Marvel and that they completely ignore or are unaware of the Blade movies
Complete Apathy. I don't care if they ever make another movie about anything ever again. So sick of the woke BS I am not willing to give them a chance any more. Not a penny, not a second. They earned my contempt. They won't earn back my trust.
If it flops, woke mob will blame it on racism.
If its a hit, they will call audience terfs for supporting series Rowling works on
Either way it will be hilarious.
In terms of generating ressentiment, it could have been better with a trans woman as McGonagall or something
@@Dizerfullpower Maxime could be a tans giantess….lol
Makes me glad I never got into this series.
It won't be a hit. The lefties they're trying to appeal to with these changes won't watch it because Rowling committed the cardinal sin of disagreeing with them on just one issue; while righties won't watch it because they're race-swapping established characters simply to promote political ideology... Even before it's officially begun, they've already alienated more than two-thirds of their potential audience.
The audience is fully in support of Rowlings positions when it comes to the trans issue, that's not a surprise. Don't give a small activist minority more importance than they have. The majority of the fans of the movies and the books are in full support of Rowling. People are right to be angry about this casting, it's a horrible casting choice.
Race swapping a role is THE definition of racism. We gave this role to a person of a different race because they're a person of a different race.
Guys, guys, guys.... It´s a fictional character in a fictional world, where race is not a defining characteristic as long as you aren´t a muggle... It does not matter how he was described and portrayed before. It´s not an Icelandic Saga, where a black villain would make no sense. It´s a magical school, in a rather timeless setting, because it´s actually detachted from our real world technological progress, and it is set in Great britain, which has always been a melting pot, because you know... history.
This debate has it´s place when we talk about actual history, when we talk stories where some of the character devolpment and background is definded by struggles and traits conected to their race, but Snape? Really? Get a grip.
@@MisterJingo93 Britain has never been a melting pot throughout all of history you revisionist.
@MisterJingo93 You need to get a grip.
@@MisterJingo93will see u when black panther isn't black anymore!
@@ChelseaChfy-ex1po It seems my handle on reality is a bit firmer than most here. I am not the adult crying about a "race-swap" of a FICTIONAL CHARACTER without any story linked to said race. It´s a bit ridiculus. But ey, that´s right fragility for ya.
And any hope for this show being watchable is gone.
Imagine the backlash from certain people if Black Panther was race swapped with a white dude. These are the same people who use "why does it matter?" as some kind of argument or defense when Snape gets the same treatment.
Ron will be a redheaded Asian guy with a thick Scottish accent.
And suddenly I’m a child again watching the Starburst commercial with the Scotch-Korean dad and son
@@chasepeeler9188 "You're Scotch-Korean, you don't make a wee lick of sense!"
@@chasepeeler9188 "Living dead - that is a contradiction, my friend."
"It's not a contest, sir."
"Everything's a contest, Sir! You are boring me to death and I'm already dead! You're boring me back to death!"
Physically impossible. There is no such thing as an Asian red-head for a good reason. Asian genetics do not allow for a variety of hair coloration (why do you think anime characters have hair in every color of the rainbow?), just black.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to pull it off...
did you forget? Hollywood hates redheads. ALL redheads get to be raceswapped into black
Wtf. Hp was diverse for it's time. Dean Thomas, Lee Jordan, angelina Thompson, original lavender brown, kingsley, the patel twins, and Cho Chang
It's never enough.
I still can't even that she literally called that poor asian girl "Cho Chang" 🤣
Lavender brown was never black in the books
Everyone forgets Blaise Zabini :(
People always forget that Rowling is a leftist in every single way, shape and form except with regards to the transexuals.
Yeah that's just ridiculous and hypocritical. What an idiot.
Yes, exactly. Thats why i called out these people for being hypocrites when they defended her.
In the end, those "fantastic animals" movies proved that Harry Potter is not too big to fail. The recent game was a huge success even if it was mediocre at best, that was a bad sign, but if this TV show fails to hook the fans because it lacks authenticity, they are going to leave just like what happened with "fantastic animals". I hope that's the case because Harry Potter is so overrated, such a basic story that repeat it's tropes over and over again, only the last book has a slightly different structure, JK is such a limited writer with poor grammar and skills... yet, here we are, people from my generation are still attached to this crap
She doesn’t even hate trans people. She just thinks trans people should use the bathrooms of their birth gender and participate in sports of their birth gender.
IKR? Millennials are embarrassingly addicted to this mid-at-best book series and the second JK Rowling said something even slightly anti-woke, our generation over here on the right jumped to conclusions.
She has a HUGE degree of control over this IP. This race-swap would 100% have to be approved by her.
Even my liberal, art teacher, practicing wicca mother is getting sick of this shit.
Why isn't Pedro Pascal in this production!
Give it a few weeks
@@svetlanaandrasova6086 😂😂
Pedro Pascal will now play the part of Gildaroy Lockheart. Lol
(I hope they dont actually do that.)
Ha ha ha ha. Nice one! 😄
Because he sucks
I think this might open a door that JK Rowling will come to regret.
If she is ok with race swapping one of her Main Characters, then it could be argued she should also be ok with making one of her Main Characters Trans.
Well, she already said Dumbledore was gay, and he does wear a fancy, purple velvet dress.
@LaCommentaire JK Rowling doesn't have issues with the Gays.
Trans is what she has a problem with.
it would be an excellent troll to pressure her into casting a Jranny
@@LaCommentaire Seems UA-cam deleted or shadow-blocked my reply. JKR doesnt have an issue with the G's. She does have an issue with the T's.
@@krisridge1985 She doesn't hate transpeople and she isn't against using trans characters in shows, she's against putting their rights over women's rights. I'm sure she would be totally fine with such characters appearing in the adaptation, so it wouldn't be a good trolling.
There's no way they could have made this show without ruining the thing, we're still in the current year.
It's not going to work. One side is utterly sick of the stunt casting, and the other side is going to despise anything Rowling is involved with no matter what.
I can’t believe this is HBO. This is the network that gave us The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and most recently The Penguin. A Harry Potter show should be a home run.
You forgot Oz. No way would that be made today.
And ROME
(mandatory "Thirteen!")
and Chernobyl, with a superb cast
And game of thrones early seasons 😭
Sequels, prequels, reboots...creativity and originality 0.
wake me up when this evil woke era has gone past
see you in a few hundred years
@@Damian-oe6mg Nah it's long since run its course. It's been a decade now since it started and ppl were already getting sick of it between as far back as 8 and as recently as 4 years ago, meaning we only got another 5 years tops as all the old stuff that's been in production for years now comes down the pipe to get brutally roasted and shit on, some giant class action lawsuits will get won and precedences will be set that outlaw these discriminatory hiring practices a little more explicitly and it will all peter out.
Pretty sure Trump and his team (especially Elon cuz he hates that shit) will outlaw the ESG/DEI thing in America outright any and every way possible (only real way to truly Make America Great Again is to abolish the divisive pseudo-legalized racism and workplace segregation the WEF and their ESG/DEI agendas have been pushing after all) and the rest of the world will follow.
@@Damian-oe6mg It wont only last that long if we dont do something about the jews now.
"Professor Snape is up to no good!"
"You're a bigot Harry"
I heard that Harry will be trading in his Nimbus for a new pink Jaguar.
😂😂😂good one
It is said Professor Snape can make bikes disappear...
I hear he can turn gross cheeses and kale with a side of light mayonnaise into fried chicken and watermelon with grape drank.
Why is stereotypically "white people" food so bland and the "black people" food so tasty btw?
I'm starting to think they give us those ones as a dig at our supposed personalities and lack of "flavour"...so racist! /s 😂
He likes fried chicken and watermelons too
Black Magic.
RaaaaysoreeeeeUss POOF!
Is that a reference to the Alf garnett sketch? Or just the phrase? If it is the Alf skit, thanks! I’d not thought of it and years and got to spend the afternoon watching TV that’s actually funny comedy!👍👍
That's african american magic, you bigot.
BLACK GIRL MAGIC!
Slayer
Does anyone else feel like media just stopped around 2018-2019ish? Movies, tv, comics, etc. It’s all remakes or woke garbage.
My wife and I used to love going to the movies, now I couldn’t even tell you what’s in the theater. Sad what we’ve become.
No ... just no. please. no.
has hollywood got the 'diversity/woke/ activism in entertainment is dead' memo yet?
I'm guessing 'nooooooooo?' - in my best Alan Rickman voice!
Just add 15 more black background characters stop race swapping DAMN! I’m black saying this!!
You must be a racist person of color then, somehow! ;-)
That's how they think; the only reason why you're against white people being replaced by black people is that you must be racist AF.
how about no forced diversity anywhere? same thing if there was series about africa and suddenly there are white characters everywhere, it is really stupid and ruins the immersion and im sick of it
There are already enough diverse characters in the books, I you look at the UK census of less than 5%
@nahkaboltsi6315 My comment had nothing to do with forced diversity. How about you get tf on?
@@lynnm6413 I said background characters for a reason.
Controversial opinion: when i first saw Rickman as Snape, he didn't look exactly like in the books. Not thin enough, not unattractive enough. But his talent has made me forget what Snape was described as in the books!
"Careful, people might think youre... UP to something."
He looked like a better looking version of the character but he still looked correct to what the book described.
Well, there is a difference between *accepting that a real human being can never look exactly like a fictional character, but trying to get as close as possible* and *deliberately casting an actor that has absolutely no likeness with the character to push a political agenda* .
Paapa Essiedu doesn't sound like a British name. 😂
Anyone who can screw a passport out of the state can be "British" these days. It's practically meaningless.
Holding a British passport makes you just as British as people whose ancestors were here before the Romans, apparently. Saying this isn't so is an -ism.
@@harbl99 Even if his name were Dean Thomas he still wouldn't be British, British people are Europeans, who evolved in that continent. Nobody would bat an eye if you said Nigerians weren't Europeans or Asians.
The black Snape, which fundamentally alters the story, is the final proof that the Happy Potter TV series is doomed. I wash my hands of it. Enough said. 🎤⬇️
They literally have a freakin' homerun right in their hands...but they rather turn their bats on the umpire!!
This must be THE BEST discussion on the subject I've seen, that brought up actual relevant and important points! I've seen some that were just racist, some that were blindly defensive and just dumb, but this addressed the real issues of WHY it's such a bad choice from the character and story perspective.
It's also the only time someone FINALLY said that the movie Snape wasn't even that accurate, that he wasn't cruel and mean enough, that this was our chance to get an accurate portrayal.
And thank you for pointing out what this'll do to James and Sirius (and LILY!). Like, these characters were NOT racist jfc, they fought in a war against racism and now they'll look like ones themselves?? What a horrible choice. I think this must be the thing that bugs me the most about it, it will be so unfair to them.
They would be better off just making an all black Harry Potter in the vein of “The Wiz”. The more they try to make things “for everyone” the less they appeal to anyone.
'Dolomite Potter'.
Do a show set in modern day, in the HP universe, maybe at Hogwarts, maybe not, and cast whoever and whatever you want. Problem solved.
@@Launchpad05 Now THAT I would pay to see. Could you even imagine? 😂
@@2012sonora As a fan since childhood, I would accept this as long as the magical world is portrayed according to the canon. But they made the mistake to promise us a tv show faithful to the book series.
Gonna go ahead and say that Harry Potter would benefit greatly if they did an animated show with traditional 2D hand drawn animation instead of live action. Just imagine the duel between Voldemort and Dumbledore in the department of Mysteries animated. It would be amazingly beautiful.
Btw, even though JK is based when it comes to real women's issues, she's still a woke idiot. I haven't had any faith in this show since it was teased and this just further proves that is DOA.
“Yo dawg we wuz wizurdz n shieeyet”
Caz n spells n sheeeit
DAS RITE
@@amadeusagripino6862 nah mean bruh
Paapa is British, not American.
@@plasmaticmedia518 While doing The Harlem Two Step.
Replacing Alan Rickman is already a tall order.
Ohhhh just you wait until they get to Harry and his PARENTS...
Two men? Two women? One African? One Hindu?
Harriet? Rhonda? Herman?
The lack of Sirius black jokes is a missed opportunity
"Half Blood Prince" and "Dark Wizard" are one thing, but don't forget that Snape's motivation for covertly helping Harry through the entire series was he had loved Lily Potter in his youth, was wracked with guilt for her murder, and thus played the role of double agent to redeem himself.
HBO is taking that entire deep and complex character of Severus Snape, and butchering his motives to: *"Yo, where da white women at?"*
so Hermione Granger will be played by Kevin Hart.
No loss. I had already given up hope that this series would be true to the original source material. I'll stick with the originals, thank you.
Cant wait for the news when it airs "Harry Potter, the utterly racist show", and proceeding to explain how the black snape, adopted by white parents, was utterly abused and beaten, then went on to be discriminated against at school, and James Potter being the biggest racist of them all, and Voldemort, the only ally etc... oh yea good times
and because that’s not truth I’ll be feeling bad for James that’s a big no erghh
i will laugh if theres a resurgence in people buying the books and movies but nobody ever goes to watch the show
This swap will destroy the tv series.
Or worse - it wont.
@@GigglingStonersit def will
@@GigglingStoners it always does. not once has it succeeded. just bc they SAY its a success doesnt mean it EVER has been.
There was an interview of J.K. Rowling talking about how Hermione was imagined as a copy-paste image of herself as a child.
If this is true - I'm out.
Imagine being cast based solely on a quota system? How utterly patronizing.
So Snape is supposed vile, disgusting and ugly in every sense: "Let's cast a Black guy!" 🤦🏻
I can't disagree with that logic, but I really don't want to see Black people in our stories.
They can make an Africa Hogwarts.
I will not be watching.
Why is it whenever they race swap a character, they almost never make them Asian? Talk about inclusive.
Native American either.
@ very true
*cough* flash Thompson
Some people just can't read the room.
Raceswapping an established franchise that had a whole goddamn long series of liveaction movies... yep definitely gonna end well right investors
Imagine how big this show will be if they just adapt the books faithfully? It's gonna be huge. We're all excitedly talking about it right now, and nothing's happened yet. They're so dumb if they push all these passionate fans away with their agendas. This is such an easy win.
Yeah welcome to anything you like being twisted and screwed just to make a point no one cared about in the first place. If the whole thing is destroyed at the end of it, Hollywood consider that successful.
As much as I like the series, I don't agree. I think this reboot is completely unnecessary. Just make a new story with new characters.
Only in our guilt ridden society does this happen. Imagine if they tried race swapping characters in stories from South Africa or China or anywhere else for that matter, just doesn't happen.
"You're a wizard, Harry! I bet you'll be grand wizard once you're trained up a bit..."
Oh no…just like your father, who tormented a black kid for just ‚existing‘ all his years of boarding school…
Feel proud yet, Harry?!
The funny thing is that Snape (and various others characters) wasn't book accurate either. Alan Rickman was great and I grew to love him, but neither he nor Sirius or Harry's parents were supposed to be that old.
This truly was their chance to start over and make things more accurate in regards to cast...and they already blew it.
Elon musk put it best, I'm tired of seeing people running around looking good while doing evil 👹
K Rowling maintained unprecedented creative control over the adaptations of Harry Potter when movies were made; she insisted on an all-British cast (they wanted to make Hermione Granger an American; she said no). So it is well known that J.K.R. has the final approval on the script and director; she ensured that the Harry Potter films stayed unerringly faithful to the books. It is well known that for Rowling, the most important issue is creative control. I understand that in the last set of movies, Warners could not hire someone else to rewrite her script without her approval and the she said yes or no, and it is my understanding that if J.K.R. says no, that i sit is NO. So unless JKR says yes to this, it is dead in the water. I suggest that one of you contact her to ask.
Wait til you find out Harry is now Harriet
No he is Hari Potter the Indian
@@ChelseaChfy-ex1poNot even, James will be the Indian. I can see it coming in the horizon
Are we really surprised that they want to cast a black man as the character people think is a villain but turns out to be one of the heroes?
"Ooh, let's make the character people THINK is bad & is really good BLACK because... you know...historical discrimination, etc.
Wow. You were absolutely the first person to make that comparison. Oh & the Wicked casting director, too. What a brilliant, clever fresh idea! Not a tired trope at all! 🤦♀️
Snape isn't really good, he's not a good man, he was courageous but he was still a bad man with bad intentions that happened to choose the correct side due to circumstances alone. He loved Harry's mother and that love convinced him to do the "right thing" but he was a bad man with plenty of negative personality traits.
Ron is going to be 100% Indian.
Wait, Snape was a Deatheater
A violent gang that murdered people
And he’s black
Will the other Deatheaters…?
This can get really “dark”
It wasn't a gang. The Death Eaters are an allegory to the Nazis in the late 1930's, they are not portrayed as just a "gang" but as a military group taking over the world and trying to force their "Wizard supremacy" over everyone else. The last book was a showcase of what their regime would have been like.
Remember that before that Snape was abused by James and Lily rejected him for not changing, and they are able to put that that's why he went over to the dark side huuuuuuu
Hermoine whitely walked down the stairs. Her white woman curls popped while she white womaned her way across the room. Ron gingered his way up to her whiteness.
These weirdos really took "Dark Wizard" to mean so literally, huh?
chapter 32 "and now Snape looked at Voldemort, and SNAPE’S FACE was like a death mask. It WAS MARBLE WHITE and so still that when he spoke, it was a shock to see that anyone lived behind the blank eyes," word for word from the book
I am already out.😂
Same.
Not interested either was at first when heard jk was in command but now I don’t think so
What's funny is I remember seeing an interview with JK where she mentioned she had spoken with Emma on the phone and thought personality wise she was a great Hermione, but then later when she saw her thought she was "too cute." 😂
There are a ton of moral dilemas that get worse once you race swap Snape, BUT just respecting the fans that fell in love with the franchise years ago and made it as huge as it is should be the BIGGEST MOST IMPORTANT reason.
People don't need moral reasons for not wanting a race swap. Just saying this is not the character we know and grew up loving is enough.
If they do the swaps I really hope this series tanks. I never want to see a franchise that disrespects the original fans so much succeed. I really hope this was just a stunt to gauge how the people would react but I'm not holding my breath...
Why is it so hard to understand or even comprehend that all the audience and fans really want is for their character to look exactly like the books, comic, and so forth, as it is described and not the "Elevated" or "Mary Sue" version of the character? You can have the best talent in the world, but if the character does not look as described then there's going to be a disconnect from the fans and audiences.
just get Adam Driver and we're set!
I think casting only British actors is a bit shortsighted. I mean we have British actors that play as American all the time. Americans can play as British. The kids, probably not. But the adults definitely.
They can’t help themselves.
Alan Rickman delivered a brooding and villainous Snape who was mysterious and frightening whilst being at the same time likeable. They're going to screw this up.
I heard Pedro Pascal is being cast as dumble dore
He'd make a good Hermione.
Adam Driver as Snape was the easiest casting decision ever and would have literally printed money.
Takes next level stupid.
Heimdal is not black. They crossed the Rubicon by making him a poc!
Fire the casting Director. The race swapping has gotten to be cliche. Fans want to watch this series. But it looks like they’re gonna jack this one up too.
What's next? Cho Chang played by a redhead Irish actress?
Think you have that backwards, Cho Chang will stay Asian, but the Weasleys will be race swapped, they're red heads, they're typically the ones that get that treatment, especially when there's a female redhead and there's Ginny, possibly Molly too (she was in the movie, I'll have to reread the books, was due for another reread). That would be my guess. I think they tried with Hermione and the show (theatre) did not do well, so I don't think they'll try it again, so that leaves Harry or Ron. With a black Snape, safer option would be Harry, then the bullying by the Marauders wouldn't be a race thing. Overall, they should've cast Adam Driver for Snape, he's got the looks for it.
If they are going to vomit over the books in this way, they might as well stick Rachel Zegler in the show as well.
I miss HBO during the 90s and early 2000s with Shows Like True Blood and OZ it was great 👍
It's not TV, it's HBO.