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

thanks for the compliment tho.

also here is a list of 1,000 differences between the movies and books. I'll leave it to you to decide why none of them bother you but changing a characters skin color makes you lose your mind.
Differences between books and films

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Character physical appearance
Some notable differences exist between key cast members of the film, compared to the way their characters are described in the books:

Hermione is described as having bushy hair and prominent front teeth, while actress Emma Watson has normal sized teeth and her hair, though bushy in this film, isn't as bad as described in the book (and later films do away with bushy hairstyles altogether).
Harry has green eyes, but actor Daniel Radcliffe, who has blue eyes, was unable to wear contact lenses, due to an allergic reaction (except in one scene - see below). Harry is also described as having messy black hair, in the film his hair is very dark brown and not particularly messy.
Ron is described as tall and lanky, while Fred and George are shorter. Actor Rupert Grint is not tall and lanky in this initial film, while the two actors cast for Fred and George (James and Oliver Phelps) are. Also, Ron is supposed to have blue eyes, but Rupert has green. Ron in the book is also described as having big hands and feet, as well as a long nose; actor Rupert Grint has a regular sized nose and hands.
Petunia Dursley has blonde hair in the book, but the actress in the film has dark brown hair.
In the scene after the Forbidden Forest, Hermione says Voldemort's name. In the book, she refers to him as 'You-Know-Who'. This also creates a continuity error where she says Voldemort's name in the fifth film as if she has never said it before.
Dudley Dursley is described to have had blonde hair in the books, while the actor has brown hair.

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It’s perfect. The hooked nose, sallow skin, and greasy long hair. Just as I imagined him.

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Copying comments from reddit is certainly one approach.

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Snape was clearly a racist

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Well, then it's appropriate that they make him black.

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and if you changed this what would happen differently in the story?

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You're focusing on the "happening" and the plot and not the meaning, the emotion, the distinctness of characters.

Because you're race obsessed and just want things to be different and look different to make a point. Turning this into a statement.

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what if Snape was shorter? does making him shorter change the story too? what if he has green eyes instead of black? is the whole thing ruined?

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If they'd cast Henry Cavill as Snape, my guess is you'd get the same reaction. He doesn't fit the role.

Look what happened when Gal Gadot was cast as Wonder Woman. And the fact that you ignore moments like that tells you everything about your "opinion."

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you can just admit you don't want them to change the actor to a black guy because you prefer white actors.

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Why do you think this? People prefer the image and the history they developed when they read something. And since the character was well defined, this one is super easy to clearly picture.

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you don't have to pretend like it's because it's a key plot element in the books with huge ramifications if they change it.

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You don't get it or are willfully obtuse.

Corinthians is the dime store SFP.

Contrarian to the core, largely based on his progressive values.

He is the type of person who applauded having Scarlet Johansson playing Major Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell movie.

The purpose is to subvert and alter.

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Corinthians is the dime store SFP.

Contrarian to the core, largely based on his progressive values.

He is the type of person who applauded having Scarlet Johansson playing Major Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell movie.

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Seriously, if they cast the actress who played Brienne of Tarth as Umbridge, he’d still defend it and ask what do we have against tall women and that we must feel threatened by a woman who is taller and stronger than most men.

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In a truly non-racist world books about a mostly white English magic school could be casted exactly as written. In a race obsessed world we cast based off race quotas to always be righting some injustice from years ago

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Bingo. Yahtzee. Eureka.

X1000

He says "race isn't important" yet it's the importance of it for them that causes the change in the first place. Because THEY are race obsessed.

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He says "race isn't important" yet it's the importance of it for them that causes the change in the first place. Because THEY are race obsessed.

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You think I'm casting the show?

How did I cause the change?

man this thread.........woof.

Rickman will always be snape to me......however, my biggest fear for this is that they are gonna hit a Netflix level of pandering.

if he is the right guy for the role - no issue with it. if you are casting him for the sake of pandering and woke shite - I am out.