"What A “Racebent” Hermione Granger Really Represents"

"As I grew up I stopped comparing myself as much to Hollywood actors and tried to train myself out of seeing white as the default for fictional characters.
Call it maturation, call it learning to love myself, call it education; whatever it was, I started looking at my media and my stories through a more critical lens — and as someone learning to feel more comfortable speaking up when not enough of those stories are representing me.
And, somewhat miraculously, so did the internet...

Hermione’s story was always one involving a young girl living in a world aggressive towards her for her very existence...

All of this makes painting Hermione as a woman of color an act of reclaiming her allegory at its roots."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/what-a-racebent-hermione-granger-really-represen-d2yp#.qx3ApmGPm