The Walking Dead, a TV show about a zombie apocalypse in the American South, had surprisingly great POC and queer representation
TWD has next to no similarities with Harry Potter (and maybe that’s what people are looking for!) but I just finished the series and wanted to recommend it for its POC and queer representation.
Aaron and Eric are a gay couple no one bats an eye at that play important roles in the story and add to it. They aren’t used as jokes or throwaway characters for a bit.
Magna and Yumiko are an on and off again lesbian couple and a part of a group who learned ASL to communicate with two sisters who are deaf and hard of hearing (Connie and Kelly). When their group joins the main characters, people begin to learn how to keep them aware and a part of the conversation by passing a notebook with them, pointing out danger and going over plans with them.
The scruffy redneck in the last two pictures is Daryl Dixon, who‘s the first to try and learn ASL to be able to talk to Connie by himself. He slowly becomes a kinder person over the course of the show, as seen in the second to last image where he corrects his brother for making a mistake he’d made himself in the past.
Very unlike in Harry Potter, many POC characters are integral to the main story and drive it forward while adding to it, aren’t given questionable names and aren’t largely evil or unnecessary. People with disabilities (lost limbs, hearing loss, impaired vision or blindness) are aided correctly and not presented as weaknesses, but people with unique superpowers.
If you like zombie apocalypse media and want a show you can take time to enjoy (its got eleven seasons, multiple spin-offs, prequels, sequels and the comic books it’s based on), and even if you don’t, I definitely recommend it. It gets better with time and the writers, cast and crew are all really cool people.
Samantha Morton and Dan Fogler from Fantastic Beasts are in the there, too!