It's funny, post-Book 4 before the fanatic Death Eater in the trial scene had a name and an identity (Bellatrix Lestrange), I wrote a fic where she was a Chinese woman called Meilin Jin. If that version of her had been your Zuko and Azula's mother they'd have been mixed-race.
Come to think of it we don't know how white the British pureblood families are anyway. In fact, as pureblood families have less contact with Muggles, they may have been less bound by Muggle racial strictures. The magical world also had long-distance travel and communication long before Muggles did, with corresponding opportunities for mixed marriages.
Interesting background for Iroh and Aunt Wu, too. I love how diverse the characters' backgrounds are. And of course, Tibetan Aang! W00t!
I also like the idea of Katara and Sokka as subcontinental Indian, too. I kind of want Sokka to be a Muggle/squib, but if he's going to be a wizard I'd love for him to be an aspiring engineering student who's sort of bummed about this whole magic thing. Maybe he could keep trying improbable projects to build working electronics on Hogwarts grounds, extolling the virtue of technology all the while. In my defense, that was part of Sokka's canon character, not an Indian tech whiz stereotype. Well, not entirely a stereotype. Also, the thought of Sokka with a clipped Hindi or Bengali accent makes me swoon.
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Date: 2014-05-08 01:43 am (UTC)Come to think of it we don't know how white the British pureblood families are anyway. In fact, as pureblood families have less contact with Muggles, they may have been less bound by Muggle racial strictures. The magical world also had long-distance travel and communication long before Muggles did, with corresponding opportunities for mixed marriages.
Interesting background for Iroh and Aunt Wu, too. I love how diverse the characters' backgrounds are. And of course, Tibetan Aang! W00t!
I also like the idea of Katara and Sokka as subcontinental Indian, too. I kind of want Sokka to be a Muggle/squib, but if he's going to be a wizard I'd love for him to be an aspiring engineering student who's sort of bummed about this whole magic thing. Maybe he could keep trying improbable projects to build working electronics on Hogwarts grounds, extolling the virtue of technology all the while. In my defense, that was part of Sokka's canon character, not an Indian tech whiz stereotype. Well, not entirely a stereotype. Also, the thought of Sokka with a clipped Hindi or Bengali accent makes me swoon.