Harry Potter fans are tweeting about #BlackHogwarts and JK Rowling is loving it
The Potter author is enjoying tweets recreating scenes from the wizarding world with a black cast

No need for a tickling charm to lighten to your Friday, #BlackHogwarts will do the trick. The hashtag is currently trending on Twitter, with users imagining what Harry Potter’s famous wizarding school would look like with a predominantly (perhaps slightly stereotypical) black cast.
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For instance…
https://twitter.com/DeadHyper/status/951627669019480065
https://twitter.com/scuba718/status/951712575389126656
And users have a few ideas which actors should be sitting at the teacher’s table…
https://twitter.com/OnionsAndWine/status/951543883833294850
https://twitter.com/fantasticboyage/status/951539645535408130
And the hashtag has become so big that even Potter writer JK Rowling herself said she’d seen the tweets and was “loving them”.
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