![]() ![]() ![]() For example, Cho’s race and ethnicity are never mentioned, yet we don’t assume that she’s white. All of these characters were either explicitly described as nonwhite, or they have “foreign” names that mark them as nonwhite. There is a handful of Hogwarts students that we generally accept as nonwhite: Cho Chang, Lee Jordan, Angelina Johnson, Dean Thomas, Blaise Zabini, and Parvati and Padma Patil. Harry is white, Tom Riddle is white, Ron and the rest of the Weasley clan are white, Dumbledore and Snape and pretty much all of the Hogwarts professors are white, Sirius and Lupin are white, Neville and Luna are white. Of course, by that logic, Rowling’s magical society is blindingly white. ![]() Rowling is silent about Hermione’s race, and we interpret that silence as default whiteness. In Western culture, white is the “neutral” race. Most of us assume that Hermione is white because she is never presented as a racial other. ![]()
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