HARRY POTTER Star Evanna Lynch Speaks Out In J.K. Rowling's Defence: "I Wish People Would Give Her More Grace"

HARRY POTTER Star Evanna Lynch Speaks Out In J.K. Rowling's Defence: "I Wish People Would Give Her More Grace"

A number of Harry Potter cast members have defended author J.K. Rowling since the initial backlash, and Luna Lovegood actress Evanna Lynch can now be counted among them. Find her comments in full here...

By JoshWilding - Mar 03, 2023 10:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Harry Potter
Source: The Telegraph (via SFFGazette.com)

Evanna Lynch is best known for playing fan-favourite character Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies, but she's now become the latest cast member to defend author J.K. Rowling. 

The writer continues to face accusations of transphobia, and after previously attempting to speak kindly of Rowling, Lynch found herself harassed and bullied off social media. Talking to The Telegraph (via SFFGazette.com), she elaborated on her past comments and joined the likes of Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter in sharing support for the Harry Potter creator. 

"I was very naive when I was dragged into that conversation," Lynch initially said of her 2020 Tweets. "I didn’t even know there were two sides. I had a view of, like, good and bad. I do have compassion for both sides of the argument."

"I know what it was like to be a teenager who hated my body so much I wanted to crawl out of my skin, so I have great compassion for trans people and I don’t want to add to their pain. I do also think it’s important that JK Rowling has been amplifying the voices of de-transitioners."

"I had this impulse to go, ‘Let’s all just stop talking about it’, and I think probably I’m a bit braver now about having uncomfortable conversations," she continued, adding: "I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society. The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable."

"I do wish people would just give her more grace and listen to her."

While Rowling ironically doesn't always use her words in a particularly delicate fashion on social media, much of what she's said in recent years could be perceived as being valid concerns. However, she instead finds herself being shouted down by very vocal detractors, facing abuse and death threats on a regular basis.

Those quick to deem anyone who says anything positive about Rowling as being "anti-trans" recently embarked on a mission to target people who dared buy Hogwarts Legacy. It backfired, though, as it became Warner Bros. Games' biggest-selling title immediately after launching. 

Lynch has a history with Rowling beyond the Harry Potter movies. Battling anorexia at 11, she wrote to the author about her recovery and received "incredible, wise letters" while in recovery.

Warner Bros. has yet to address the franchise's big (or small) screen future, but we'll keep you updated on SFFGazette.com.

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TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/3/2023, 10:04 PM
“…and is playing the Cuckoos in AvX, oh wait, that’s CBM news, this here is Keep TRowling, TRowling, TRowling, TRowling, WHAT?! .Com, my mistake”
Vigor
Vigor - 3/3/2023, 10:07 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - just wondering if we should be concerned about you friend....?
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 3/3/2023, 10:08 PM
@Vigor - kinda confused myself.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 3/3/2023, 10:08 PM
which side are we on?
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 3/3/2023, 10:09 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - Personally, I thought it was a great comment.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/3/2023, 10:09 PM
@TheWalkingCuban -

I was already confused that I couldn't find my shoes, but this...what??

TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/3/2023, 10:52 PM
@Vigor - a sign of a true friend. “Why are you just sitting in your car? You’re gonna be late for work. You don’t even have your keys-
“SHHH! It goes… without saying”
(Moment of silence, and car revs up)
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/3/2023, 10:54 PM
@OriginalGusto1 - after all, you are old enough to remember Fred Durst and his vaudeville troupe
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/3/2023, 10:58 PM
@DocSpock -
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/3/2023, 11:05 PM
@TheWalkingCuban -

LOL!

I'm still laughing at the new Southpark about the ex-royal A holes.

TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/3/2023, 11:51 PM
@DocSpock - haven’t watched that one, don’t get me on a SP binge man. My rich cousin said watch movies, not shows. He’s constantly building and renting duplexes. Getting my credit back up so I can do it too.

South Park will ruin ALL OF THAT!!! Simpsons? The Simpsons would put me back in the 400’s!
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/4/2023, 1:16 AM
@TheWalkingCuban -

The wussy Simpsons have gone so vanilla that it's little worth watching now. It used to be so great.


TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/4/2023, 3:24 AM
@DocSpock - then I guess it’s a good thing I haven’t watched them in a long time. I’m sure I missed some good ones in there, but even so, way too much content.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 3/6/2023, 7:34 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - LMFAO! I don't even...you win.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/3/2023, 10:11 PM
As someone who legitimately hasn't cared about Harry Potter or Rowling since the Deathly Hallows, I'm really tired of hearing about her. Just stick to writing books.

If someone wants to self identify as a man, a woman or neither and is causing no harm to anyone else then she should chill, after all she's responsible for an entire generation self identifying as a Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 3/3/2023, 11:14 PM
@KaptainKhaos - I identify as slithering myself.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/3/2023, 11:23 PM
@MyCoolYoung - and that's totally fine, Live along and Slither on!
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/4/2023, 12:16 AM
@KaptainKhaos - so if a man identifies as a woman and dresses in a locker room and showers naked next to your daughter seeing her naked and had his wiener out you are okay with that?

KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 12:36 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - I don't have a daughter (nor do I want children), so I can't really give an opinion. Would it be any different then a naked dude in the locker room seeing your son naked and had his magnum dong out?
Origame
Origame - 3/4/2023, 12:42 AM
@KaptainKhaos - thats the thing, people won't let her write the books. They're just so set on this presumed danger she's causing that they will even bash hogwarts legacy, a game she had nothing to do with, simply because she gets royalties from it.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 1:00 AM
@Origame - can she not just self publish her own books?, I'm sure if she put Twitter down for a minute and started writing she could get a book done with no issues
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/4/2023, 2:00 AM
@KaptainKhaos - Yes it’s VERY different. Showing your male appendage to a woman is sexual harassment. Are you implying that that is okay now?
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