I'll just point out that contextually it means scared, like white with fear. It's super clunky writing, but then if you're interpreting it as actually white due to skin color, that's possibly even more clunky (ie what the heck does that have to do with anything).
Contextually, it means a white person being scared. Because a Caucasian person can turn so pale that they look, uh...white. And as an aside, you can certainly have a black actress portraying Hermione, but that's artistic license, it's not canon. And when you try to pass it off as canon, it becomes an exercise in pure PC.
She hasn't said it's canon.
She's saying that Hermione in the book could have been black.Except she can't without a very tortured reading of the books.
And when you try to pass it off as canon, it becomes an exercise in pure PC.
Contextually, it means a white person being scared. Because a Caucasian person can turn so pale that they look, uh...white.
I agree with that; I'm just pointing out that this is incorrect, she's not saying its canon:
a very tortured reading of the books.
I disagree with your limitation in the usage. That's what you'd call the etymology of the phrase, it doesn't have to define it. I still think it's canon that she's white, just not necessarily from there alone.
How come no one mentioned that hermione's parents were dentists I for one have never met a black dentist
White witches, on the other hand ....
While the vast majority of people responded positively to the casting decision, Rowling said: “I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ – that is, lost colour from her face after a shock – that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with. But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”
Wow. She's really handling this poorly.
The scary part is that the majority of the world probably supports her on this.Not scary because of the impact on the Harry Potter saga, but scary because of what it says about the world we live in.
And what does it say about the world we live in?