picascribit:

jilylicious:

Harry is NOT specified as white in the series whereas Peter is canonically described as chubby.

“Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it.” (Philosopher’s Stone p.14)

No where in this paragraph Rowling says that he is white specifically so yes people can headcanon him as POC as they please, I personally LOVE desi!Harry. 

“’Pettigrew… that fat little boy who was always tagging around after them at Hogwarts?’ said Madam Rosmerta“ (Prisoner of Azkaban, ch. Ministry of Magic) 

This, however, is how Peter was introduced the first time in Prisoner of Azkaban so, I’m sorry but there’s no proof backing up your point.

Also people headcanon characters as POCs or as part of LGBTQ+ because they are not represented enough. 

Guess who else is not represented enough? 

Fat and chubby people as Tumblr users insist on using thinnest girl possible for Millicent Bulstrode and boys with ridiculous bodies for Peter Pettigrew. Oh and don’t get me started on Neville aesthetics. Fat does not equal unaesthetic and people who believe that are what’s wrong with our society.

The very simple answer to why changing some things can be good, but changing others isn’t, comes down to two related things, anon: motivation and message.

WHY do you want to make that particular change? 

Is it because you want to give greater representation to a group that is commonly underrepresented? Do you wish there were more characters like you in media? Great! Go ahead and make that change!

Is canon broken? Do you feel that some aspect of the story or character simply does not make sense, or would make more sense done in a slightly different way, and you want to make adjustments to compensate for it? Also perfectly fine!

Do you want to explore an interesting-sounding AU? Hey, who doesn’t? We all love a good AU!

Do you just not like that aspect of the character, and not want to deal with it? Now we’re shading into some potentially problematic territory. Because the answer to your last question is a very emphatic YES. 

When you remove fundamental aspects of a character, you change who that character is, and how they interact with the world. This is fine when the goal is to increase representation for a marginalized group, or to add a new perspective that a character lacks without that change.

When a change removes a character from a marginalized group (and make no mistake; fat people are marginalized), you’re not just decreasing representation; you are broadcasting a message to your readers, who (I promise you) come in all shapes, sizes, colors, genders, backgrounds, and abilities, that you find one of the factors of their existence annoying at best, and at worst, you find them repulsive.

There is, simply put, no good reason to remove Peter’s fatness. The only reasons people do it are because a) they don’t want a fat boy in their hot Marauders gang, or b) they want another svelte and sexy villain to drool over/cry over/redeem; i.e., they see fatness and attractiveness/worthiness as mutually exclusive, and they can’t be bothered exploring the humanity of people they think are gross. That is a bad motivation for making a change to a character, and it sends a bad message.

tl;dr: Go write a fat, sexy character and get over yourself, or stick to writing characters who are canonically slender. Fat fanfic readers do not need your fatphobic, fat-erasing bullshit.