If the author hasn’t become so … unlikable, I’d say, that the skin color of an actor would only bother racists. With her being the TERF, she’ve became … I’ll not pay any more money for products of hers.
Maybe. Snape isn’t exactly a sympathetic character, though; he almost was, but ended up being a true villain.
Maybe you’re right, with a different author perhaps this would be uncontroversial. It’s hard to not read racism into it given her politics, though. The only thing that would have looked worse, given her nationality and politics, would have been if they’d made Snape Pakistani.
If the author hasn’t become so … unlikable, I’d say, that the skin color of an actor would only bother racists. With her being the TERF, she’ve became … I’ll not pay any more money for products of hers.
Maybe. Snape isn’t exactly a sympathetic character, though; he almost was, but ended up being a true villain.
Maybe you’re right, with a different author perhaps this would be uncontroversial. It’s hard to not read racism into it given her politics, though. The only thing that would have looked worse, given her nationality and politics, would have been if they’d made Snape Pakistani.