This one drives me insane. INSANE. Because again -- given the insidiousness of racism in our country and all around the world, it's borderline irresponsible to ask children to associate it with only the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Republican stand-ins that occupy Slytherin house. The world just doesn't work like that.

But lucky for me, according to Granger, my insanity is well-warranted: other "Harry Potter" characters in other houses clearly displayed racist tendencies throughout the series.

"[Rowling] tweeted any racist would be sorted into Slytherin... This is when Ron thinks all giants are necessarily evil, despite his experiences with Hagrid?" Granger said. "So he’s not a racist? What does that make him? I don’t know if you want to call giants a race, but what else would you call them?"

Granger added that Ron judging Harry's parseltongue is just as damning, as he's "got all these prejudices from his childhood that are just as ingrained and unexamined as Draco Malfoy’s blood purity fixation." It's just that, you know, Draco's racism is far more overt, and against real human beings instead of giants and house-elves.

Oh, and another thing? Arthur Weasley's fetishization of muggles can be seen as an allegory for positive racism, FOR SURE.

"The enlightened figure of the book, Albus Dumbledore, is the one who says that there shouldn’t be prejudice against muggles," Granger said. "But people who aren’t prejudiced against muggles, like Arthur Weasley... he’s fascinated by all this, this and that, always wants to talk to muggles. He’s sort of like the white liberal that likes to hang out with black people because it’s cool. He has all these bizarre conceptions of what it’s like to be a muggle, but he doesn’t actually know any of them.

"So it’s a prejudice but, in a way, an innocent prejudice. It’s like Harriet Beecher Stowe, if you read 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'... the Weasleys are positive racists in terms of the muggles."