Me Cousin Fergus
If you’re going to write a whole article desperately looking for political incorrectness in Harry Potter, could you spare one clause to J.K Rowling’s depiction of Irish people? Come on. A British author is not allowed to put the phrase “me mam” in the mouth of an Irish character. That’s some minstrel shit.
The film producers aren’t off the hook either. They got this thug, who looks like the guy who mugged me in Dublin when I was 11, to play Seamus. And of course they cast Brendan Gleason as the flask-chugging Professor Fake-Moody, who was never mentioned as Irish in the books.
I, for one, am outraged.