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It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series
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Author LaDarrion Williams poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 25, 2024, to promote his book "Blood at the Root." - photo by AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
It all began with a post on Twitter. It was 2020 during the height of the pandemic and LaDarrion Williams was thinking about the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre. He proposed: “What if Harry Potter went to am HBCU in the South?” “Growing up, I watched ‘Twilight,' I watched ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ and ‘Percy Jackson,’ which is one of my favorite books.