Hermione Granger is black. Kind of…sort of…okay, not really, But technically she will be in the West End production of “Harry Potter And The Cursed Child,” a play based on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Black actress Noma Dumezweni will portray Hermione Granger in the production, which led plenty of Harry Potter fans, including myself, to collectively go, “HELL YES” all over social media. This has been one of the most popular fan fantasies ever, so it’s nice to get some validation. Even J.K. Rowling apparently approves of black Hermione, which she has demonstrated in the past when she “liked” a Tweet dedicated to fanart of Hermione as a black girl, and this tweet she posted mere hours ago.
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