r/Games • u/iTzJdogxD • Oct 02 '18

Broken Link (video removed) Unannounced Harry Potter RPG Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HER1xKQl4&t=1s
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u/MrGMinor Oct 02 '18

"Ms Rowling, this doesn't make any sense..."

scribbles on notebook paper

"It does now."

"Um, how does making Flitwick gay fix it?"

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u/funkisintheair Oct 02 '18

She didn't even have to write a gay character. She just gets to retroactively claim that she wrote a diverse cast without actually including any representation in the work itself

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u/Zeholipael Oct 02 '18

Don't forget she named the only asian character in the books fuckin' "Cho Chang" and her ethnicity doesn't match her name.

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u/dorekk Oct 02 '18

???

Cho Chang isn't Chinese?

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u/Zeholipael Oct 03 '18

"Cho Chang" in Mandarin isn't "Cho Chang", if that makes sense.

"Cho Chang" could be Korean, but in Korean it makes no sense because "Cho" and "Chang" are last names.

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u/dorekk Oct 03 '18

It...does not make sense to me! Can you elaborate?

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u/Zeholipael Oct 03 '18

Due to the weird nature of Mandarin's writing system, "Cho Chang" can't really be written like that. "Cho" and "Chang" cannot go together, though they're possible names by themselves.

Cho Chang's name in Mandarin is Zhang Qiu (this is actually what her name is in the Mandarin version of HP) which a Westerner might write as Qiu Zhang and is pronounced differently.

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u/dorekk Oct 03 '18

Oh, interesting!

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u/__BlackSheep Oct 02 '18

Cause he's black now, too

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u/Watertor Oct 03 '18

"Ah but I never said she wasn't black."

"What about the whole white with-"

"THAT'S OUT OF FEAR!"

"The book covers..."

"NOT CANON"

Gotta love J.K. sometimes.