succubike:

Why the Nagini reveal is problematic

Out of all the roles of the entire franchise she could have made to be of an Asian woman, she chose a snake who is subservient to a white male fascist. Asian women are tirelessly misrepresented in Western media, and by extent misjudged by consumers of that media, to be submissive and inferior to white men by default of both gender and race.

– Ideally, it would be cool if we could normalise her being a villain and whatnot, but the shortage of unhurtful representations of Asian women in Western media and JK Rowling’s works does not allow this.

Rowling claims Naga is an Indonesian myth when it is actually an Indian myth. If she genuinely cared for diversity, Googling the four-letter word “Naga” on her diamond buttons shouldn’t hurt her fingers that much.

East Asians are underrepresented and mispresented in Western media, but even more so South and Southeast Asians. But sure, a South Korean actress will do because all Asians look the same.

The above points really can’t be challenged by “Oh, but we haven’t watched the movie yet!”, because that argument is irrelevant to them.

“If Nagini was white, you people would still complain!” Yeah, because JK Rowling could just have…..not made Nagini ~secretly~ a person at all. The more she tries to milk this franchise, the more holes she rips in her already well established canon of the Harry Potter universe. At this point she is just picking out side characters who were written ambiguously because other details weren’t important to the plot or world building of the original 7 books, and put in some shocking twist on them for mastermind-writer and diversity points.

sableaire:

I couldn’t not sigh at J.K. Rowling’s response here, because first of all, Claudia Kim is a Korean actress, whom Rowling didn’t even think to list in her tweet there (I feel bad for the actress;; she must have been excited to get a role in a major franchise, but this is just… there are so many issues;;;)

Literally the first thing that comes up when you google “naga” is: 

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gobstone-d:

if ten years ago someone had told me that nagini was actually A WOMAN I would have laughed because of the nonsense of it, but today? after that  voldemort-actually-had-a-child-with-bellatrix mess? Today I just shrug it off and consider it plausible

voldermort what?????