We only see racial diversity in other Houses, so it's nice to see someone break the Slytherin mold in that regard (even if he is rich and a Pureblooded snob like the rest of Slytherins, ha).
Yes, and there's also the nice little plus when you see someone who gets shrilly self-righteous about how they hate the Slytherins because "they're racist" then suddenly can't deal with one of them not being white because it turns out they're not racist at all, in terms of the real world.
I get a little uncomfortable with racial/ethnic/national diversity in HBP. Some of the names JKR chooses to name her characters are less than politically correct. She might as well have named Cho Chang "Chinky Chink."
It's so sad, because that's almost exactly what I thought when I heard about people not getting that she was Chinese when she was cast for the movie. Cho Chang wasn't enough of a clue? What did she have to be named for you to think she could be Chinese? Chinky McChinkerson?
Of course, that's also why you can't then turn around and pretend it's strange for anyone to think Blaise was Italian.
I would love -- love -- to read a Blaise fic where he's not used as a plot device or a sex object. Where it actually goes into depth into his past life and his relationship with his mother. Oh man.
Not to mention that in canon Pansy says he's hard to please, and one of his few lines is to say he wouldn't touch Ginny because she's a blood traitor. One could easily go the other way and give Blaise a complete horror of sex because of his mother's past.
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Yes, and there's also the nice little plus when you see someone who gets shrilly self-righteous about how they hate the Slytherins because "they're racist" then suddenly can't deal with one of them not being white because it turns out they're not racist at all, in terms of the real world.
I get a little uncomfortable with racial/ethnic/national diversity in HBP. Some of the names JKR chooses to name her characters are less than politically correct. She might as well have named Cho Chang "Chinky Chink."
It's so sad, because that's almost exactly what I thought when I heard about people not getting that she was Chinese when she was cast for the movie. Cho Chang wasn't enough of a clue? What did she have to be named for you to think she could be Chinese? Chinky McChinkerson?
Of course, that's also why you can't then turn around and pretend it's strange for anyone to think Blaise was Italian.
I would love -- love -- to read a Blaise fic where he's not used as a plot device or a sex object. Where it actually goes into depth into his past life and his relationship with his mother. Oh man.
Not to mention that in canon Pansy says he's hard to please, and one of his few lines is to say he wouldn't touch Ginny because she's a blood traitor. One could easily go the other way and give Blaise a complete horror of sex because of his mother's past.