White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione ... Watson in the eight Harry Potter films. However, as Rowling states, the character’s ethnicity and background were never specified ...

When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed ...

Yes, there are Black characters in the books, but they didn’t get much screen time in the movies. It appears that may change with the upcoming “Harry Potter ... he being white was important.