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With ‘Harry Potter’ Snape Casting, Tough Questions Are Raised About Hermione

With Paapa Essiedu cast as Severus Snape in a way that fundamentally alters storylines in the source material, the same may happen with Hermione.

WBWB raised eyebrows this week with a new report from Deadline that Paapa Essiedu is signing his contract to play Severus Snape in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series. Like the Snape casting, it feels like these changes are being made in a way that may promote diversity at the cost of not realizing the potentially racist source material storylines that this would create. It is understandable to want to diversify the overwhelmingly white cast of the Harry Potter series to some extent, but choosing these characters specifically creates issues for both the story and the actors themselves that do not seem to be getting considered.

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