hiddenhogwarts:

Articulate, entertaining, engaging, insightful Lee Jordan, after many years on the radio, decides he should write a book. He goes through several ideas. The most suggested from fans and publishers is how Potterwatch began and connected with people. Everyone wants to hear about the War. So Lee really tries to write this. But… the memories still sting. The deaths are too recent. He can’t even write Fred’s name. Besides, that’s not his story. He wants to write his story. Lee doesn’t know what his story is, so after months of failed brainstorming and idea webs, Lee sits down and does a stream of consciousness. It’s a mess, of course, but from it stems his story of facing antiblackness, particularly at Hogwarts but also after Hogwarts. Once he realizes that’s his story, he can hardly stop writing. He interviews others like Angelina and Dean and Hermione and Lavender and Professor Sinistra. When he starts reaching out for interviews, students and alumni reach out to him, sending him their stories. When he gets those, other students and alumni of color also send him some stories. That’s not Lee’s story, but he finds a place for some of those stories in his book. A chapter just full of some of those stories to show that the problem with racism isn’t just antiblackness. He presents them without edits or commentary. And his hand cramps from how many people he responds back to encouraging them to write their own stories in their own books. It also prompts a new segment of his radio show, where wixen of color can come cathartically rant, ask and give advice, and just connect with each other.

The title came to Lee right away. It was the ending that he struggled with. His writing has been so cathartic, though, and helped him realize some important things, so that’s how he ends his book. With hope.