Not tagging this spoiler cause fuck TERFs, don't buy the game, uphold TC69 Thought etc. Have gotten this all from the above article and reviews that support it.
Yep, anti-semitic, slave-owning, Protocols of Zion plagiarising, let's join the anti-goblin pogrom game.
Yes the MacGuffin unambiguously belongs to the Goblins, who have a labour theory of ownership. No you can't join the Goblins. Yes you kill a bunch of them. Yes, there is a fucking quisling that's seen as good actually. Yes, every teacher thinks fighting the goblins is a good thing, despite a few token missions that apparently show how oppressed they are.
No, you never critique that this and every other aspect of the wizard world might be a bad thing.
I am once again calling for the House Elves to rise up, slit every slaver-wizard throat in Hogwarts, and place their heads on pikes outside the entrance as a warning to the others.
Don't. Buy. The TERF. Game.
Hermione might be black according to JK Rowling. It's a cop out, but it'd be better represantation than Shacklebolt except for the one part where Hermione complains about all the chattel slavery and gets laughed at for being uppity by all the other characters, so now it's a fucking hilarious cop out on account of how bad it is.
I don't think she was ever intended to be anything but white. It was just one of those instances of not describing the default as white and then rolling with it when she had plausible deniability.
Even if she was intended to be black, a lot like Dumbledore being gay, Hermione's life as a black person isn't reflected in the text at all. That and her whole abolitionist parody arc would be a lot worse in that context.
All non-white characters in Harry Potter are either given a very explicitly not British name like "Cho Chang," or they speak in a patois accent, or they're simply called African. Hermione being black is Rowling trying to weasel her way into seeming progressive again because Hermione is typically described as having curly hair. Rowling is a terf, liar, and a racist
Also if she were supposed to be black, someone should have informed the illustrator because she's depicted as white in the illustrations
the books consistently refer to her as white, it's just rowling forgetting what she wrote
IIRC that specific tweet was JK saying something directly contradicted by her own text, but also she was responding to people who were mad about a black woman playing Hermione in the Harry Potter play and fuck those people.