Gallery: The best fan art of black Hermione Granger

Daniel Wren

Set 19 years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the story features an adult Harry working at the Ministry of Magic, and his young son Albus Severus James Potter. The synopsis is:

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.

The stage production caused some minor controversy when Laurence Olivier Award-winning black actor Noma Dumezweni was selected to play Hermione (although J.K. Rowling said her description of Hermione had been vague enough to allow this). Some fans, however, were thrilled – as was Emma Watson.

Fans, too, have long imagined Hermione was a person of colour (with her frizzy hair often seen as a coded way of referencing this). Fan art is one such way the idea has been explored. Here are some of our favourites.

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Via artofpan.tumblr.com
Via artofpan.tumblr.com
Via racebending.tumblr.com
Via racebending.tumblr.com
Batcii/Tumblr / Via batcii.tumblr.com
Batcii/Tumblr / Via batcii.tumblr.com
Via lvnderbrwn
Via lvnderbrwn
hermione granger 4
Via dellbelle39.tumblr.com
Via thelonelytribalist.com
Via thelonelytribalist.com
hermione granger 3
Via natello-universe.tumblr.com
hermione granger 2
Via lestatthewolfkiller.tumblr.com
Via fridouw.carbonmade.com
Via fridouw.carbonmade.com
hermione granger 5
Via mariannewiththesteadyhands.tumblr.com
Via loquaciousliterature.tumblr.com
Via loquaciousliterature.tumblr.com
hermione granger 6
Via llydia.co.vu
black hermione 1
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black hermione 2
Via tumbnation.com

About Daniel Wren

Vada Magazine staff writer. Interested in travel, news, politics and dating.