re: THR: Paapa Essiedu has been offered to play Severus Snape in HBO's Harry Potter adaptation

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I mustve missed in the books where Snape hated certain races or was a member of the KKK or something

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If this is sarcasm - well done.

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are you saying Snape couldn't have been black because he hated mudbloods?

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Oh, you were serious?

Absolutely not. I just think it funny that you missed the fact that Snape absolutely was a racist who hated men and women who were different from him based on attributes that they could not control and that they were born with (i.e. non-magical blood). And to lash out at those people, he joined an organization that wore black robes and hoods to hide their identities and strike fear in the hearts of their enemies (much like the KKK did in the Deep South).

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Snape absolutely was a racist who hated men and women who were different from him based on attributes that they could not control and that they were born with (i.e. non-magical blood). And to lash out at those people, he joined an organization that wore black robes and hoods to hide their identities and strike fear in the hearts of their enemies (much like the KKK did in the Deep South).

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So you're saying that if Snape had been created in the past 5 years, this board would hate the character as written and complain that snape's creators were perpetuating their anti-white male agenda through his characterization.

are you suggesting Snape wanted to kill Lily?

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Amon Goeth

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I'm not sure, never met the guy. I know from going inside Snapes memories that he adored Lily.

I don't recall a single moment from the books where Snape discussed skin color to the effect where him being black or white would matter at all. we have black death eaters in the movies

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I'm not sure, never met the guy.

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He was an SS commandant who ruled over the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp during the Second World War. He's better known as the main antagonist of the 1993 biopic Schindler's List. He's a brutal monster and psychopath who develops an infatuation for his Jewish house maid (Helen Hirsch). He lets her live and sends her off to work in Schindler's factory because he adored her and didn't want to see her killed in a death camp.

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I know from going inside Snapes memories that he adored Lily.

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That's great. He adored her. It was an infatuation and yet he had no problem calling her a Mudblood in front of the whole school when she was trying to help him. The man was a selfish little shite who only turned double agent when he found out Lily was a direct target of Voldemort. He couldn't have cared less if James or Harry had died in that house, just so long as Lily lived.

And this belies the fact that he was part of an organization that terrorized Muggles and those who allied themselves with Muggles.

the entire thread is about them casting a black guy as snape

i responded asking how it affected the storytelling

still waiting for you to provide an example of where his whiteness was a key part of his characters story arc

Why would they change his race to begin with?

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Why would they change his race to begin with?

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because they found an actor they wanted to play that role? If race was a key part of the character it wouldn't work, but since it isn't, they can choose whoever they want. Or maybe it is to help the viewer like the Velaryon's in HOTD. we won't know til the show is released

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Snape hated certain races (Muggles)

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the love of his life was a muggleborn. literally he made the ultimate sacrifice due to his love of a muggleborn.

he joined the death eaters because he was bullied, not because he was a racist. you should go watch his scenes again.

Noone was ever gonna match Alan Rickman, now at least they can go a different direction completely.