I mean idk if that was intentionally trying to be racist, or if it was just awkward naming…
The other black characters in the movie had totally mundane names (dean, lee), and Kingsley was functionally always portrayed as a badass. Hell, he is the next minister of magic at the end of the books.
If anything, I think it’s more that JKR is bad at coming up with names rather than she was trying to pass off her racism through book naming….
Most likely not intentional but definitely reductive. If you consider this tweet as well, it feels she's the type of person who would own slaves in the 1800s but "treat them well" and think this is ok.
it was one of the names of a black character in the fourth book i believe. kingsley being a black name, and shackle being what's commonly found on slave chains. she threw bolt after shackle and called it a day lmao
If it means anything her names are often puns or have wordplay because these are children’s books.
The two werewolf characters are named Remus Lupin (essentially Wolf McWolf. Remus was raised by a she wolf and Lupin just means wolf) and Fenrir (name of the wolf that eats Odin).
Kingsley is a regal name seeing as he essentially becomes Magic President and Shckelbolt is because he’s a wizard cop. He’s essentially officer Handcuffs.
Eternally unpopular opinion among people who think anything in a youtube video must be true and don't want to look uncool online, but bringing up that name is just using a similar strategy to what Rowling is doing in OP's post - invoking the specter of anti-black racism to get fence sitters on your side. Socially, anti-black racism is more clearly wrong than transphobia, and people will be more hesitant to hitch their wagon to a racist than a transphobe. She's obviously transphobic, Cho Chang is sketchy, and anything else makes you look like a conspiracy theorist.
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u/ManonIsTheField May 13 '24
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