Alohomora Visibility: ‘Hermione Granger and the Quarter Life Crisis’ is Your New Potterverse Fix

In the Harry Potter books, I found a bit of myself in Hermione Granger. Hermione was always strong-willed, game plan on the ready, and book smart. Our writers have highlighted amazing Hermione cosplay that shows how many of us have found ourselves in her. Sure, campaigning for the rights of house elves without ever actually talking to a house elf is quite a privileged move. Hermione could have stepped back a bit on that one. When Harry Potter and the Cursed Child hit the stage, visibility got real AF. Casting Noma Dumazweni as Hermione had so many Black women and POC throwing tweets like confetti. With that casting move, everyone could see the Hermione that we’d always dreamed of. It also kept us dreaming and wanting more.

Visibility came all the way thru with a new (or at least new to me) web series on YouTube. Hermione Granger and the Quarter Life Crisis (HGQLC) is all of the fanfic, #BlackGirlMagic fabulousness that I didn’t know I needed. In HGQLC, we catch up with the protagonist after the Battle of Hogwarts was won. She’s 25 years old, the world has continued without the threat of the Dark Lord and she ain’t trying to be booed off with Ron. You remember life after high school or college? Watching folks move their separate ways while you go the way you’d always planned, full speed into “WTF am I doing here?” Yeah, that’s what this shit is. Creator Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael cried out “lumos” and shed light on all of the things that every twenty-something (and thirty-somet…