#BlackHogwarts Is Brilliant and I Want Someone To Make A Movie About It!

If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you must have seen #BlackHogwarts trending yesterday. The trend’s filled with brilliant use of GIFs and jokes to give everyone an idea of how Hogwarts could’ve looked like with better black representation. I’m all for Black Hogwarts becoming a movie!

While J.K. Rowling gifted the world with the Harry Potter books, the series itself isn’t a shining example of racial and queer representation in literature. And that’s why I really enjoyed the fandom coming together to create #BlackHogwarts and having their voices and headcanons heard. I wouldn’t mind a Black Hogwarts spoof film or even a book series.

But Farid, Hermione Granger is a WOC!

Yeah, nopes. She doesn’t really count, as far as I’m concerned. Similarly, I don’t want to pat the Harry Potter series on the back for making Dumbledore queer. I’m still waiting to see how a young Dumbledore and his queerness will be handled in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film.

J.K. Rowling is happy about the Black Hogwarts trend though.

Seeing them and loving them. #BlackHogwarts https://t.co/UZTVwmh7Uy

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 11, 2018

Here are some of the awesome tweets you should see.

Me ignoring the ghosts in Hogwarts #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/hSeqDpAmOJ

— SourPumPum (@SourPumPum) January 12, 2018

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Ravenclaw Girls!!! #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/8MxAwWmipk

— Gabriella (@gabriella_tl) January 12, 2018

Harry: “we have to go to the Forbidden Forest”#BlackHogwarts: pic.twitter.com/LWNWvWlwbX

— Demetria Chavon (@DemetriaLesterC) January 12, 2018

#BlackHogwarts me when I peep my best friend on the Maurauder’s Map with that slytherin she swore she was done with pic.twitter.com/5hv1pUptZs

— Milto 🌻🍯✨ (@milteaux) January 12, 2018

Showing up to the Yule ball like #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/aS0INeEXz6

— citizen of wakanda (@Beylack) January 12, 2018

Hermonie: it’s LeviOsa not LevioSAAAAH #BlackHogwarts

me: pic.twitter.com/QsHVm24iB7

— THADDY (@ItsHippyPotter) January 12, 2018

Us adding extra seasonings to all the recipes up in Potions class #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/GDggZECb58

— chantelchavon (@chantelchavon) January 12, 2018

#BlackHogwarts
“Girl what you wearing to the Yule Ball?”

Me a hufflepuff: Oh nothing too fancy.

*At the Yule Ball* pic.twitter.com/xqobSQ0aTP

— YeAr oF ThE HoE🧚🏾‍♀️ (@Tinytay19) January 11, 2018

“Harry did you put your name in the Goblet of fire?” #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/MjJ1fAVnzy

— Matthew (@Callo_23) January 12, 2018

#BlackHogwarts the new Defense against the dark arts teacher… pic.twitter.com/uXyKuMadpF

— cutechick86 ♋🍓💰🌈 (@cutechick8668) January 11, 2018

Oda Mae Brown, reading your tea leaves during Divinations #BlackHogwarts pic.twitter.com/PBFNI22ZbB

— Christopher Howell (@CLloydHowell) January 11, 2018

And a whole lot more! Do yourself a favor and visit #BlackHogwarts on Twitter.

I love it when fandoms come together to create the representation they want to see in the content they consume. Hopefully, continuing to do so will urge creators to deliver more diverse content.

Fingers crossed #BlackHogwarts inspires someone to make a spoof of the Harry Potter franchise.

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Author: Farid-ul-Haq

Farid has a Double Masters in Psychology and Biotechnology as well as an M.Phil in Molecular Genetics. He is the author of numerous books including Missing in Somerville, and The Game Master of Somerville. He gives us insight into comics, books, TV shows, anime/manga, video games, and movies.

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