and if harry is dark-skinned well
kind of explains why the uber-white middle class world of privet drive so easily accepted that this scrawny child in too-big clothes was a ‘criminal’ and ‘disturbed’ and why nobody called the goddamn police 🙁
and if hermione is also dark, it adds an interesting factor to the racism she experienced not only in the muggle world but in the wizarding one too, just because of how she was born
plus, her freaking out about the slavery thing with the house elves