You deliberately made this change, knowing full well people would object.
If anyone deserves blame for Paapa Essiedu’s situation, it’s the people who cast him despite promising the show would stick closer to the source material than the movies.
You knew it would generate controversy, did it anyway, and now act surprised by the backlash.
You got the exact response you manufactured.
1: At no point has "mudblood" ever been treated that seriously. Stop importing woke era safetyism "words hurt more than Crucios" logic into a story that's supposed to refute it.
2: Hermione didn't even grow up knowing she was a witch, she found out when she manifested. Wizarding world prejudices may annoy her, but they don't cause her some kind of generational trauma.
3: The story is about Malfoid growing up, questioning the things her father taught her, and rejecting the worldview represented by Lord Voldemort without becoming a carbon copy of Hermione's views in the process either. That's her arc. There's no redemption story if she doesn't do anything that needs redeeming.
4: If an extra wand "diminishes the importance of Harry and Ron" then scale up the challenges they face proportionally. Make the major Death Eater characters scarier and more competent. Allow Voldemort to master the Elder Wand. Etc. This is powerscaling 101 shit.
"You'd best enjoy this... mudblood 'spell' while you can. I'll use it to beat you and your House into the dirt, Pottah!"
#Malfoid spent a month planning every detail. 1/3