“I did speak about being in Harry Potter long before I was in the films. I just had this feeling I was going to be in it. I wrote to her [J.K. Rowling] when I was going through the eating disorder. I told her that it was the only thing that took my mind off. Anyone who has gone through it will know that that’s a very powerful thing, to take your mind off what you’re going through. Everywhere I turned… my siblings were angry with me, or my parents were worried about me and this was something that gave me a lot of solace. I wrote to her when I was going through that and said thank you. And I sent it to her editor and her assistant obviously read it, and was touched by the letter and gave it to her and she wrote back. She wrote a handwritten letter. We started a correspondence and we actually became pen pals, that’s when I was about 11. I wrote to her about Luna specifically saying she really frees me
because she’s such an eccentric, and she’s so weird and everyone
acknowledges she’s weird and for one second it doesn’t make her question herself. I think I said I wanted to play her.” — Evanna Lynch [x]
Hang on, I remember @harrypotterconfessions once posting a confession that was very similar to this. I didn’t know you were still on tumblr! Brilliant!
I was only a young teenager when the last half of the series were being released, so I was a bit too young to have crushes on the main cast. I do remember all the boys around me fancying Emma Watson, though, and I never really got it. Sure, Watson was good-looking, but I never understood why they made such a big deal over her.
Then, I watched OOTP in the early 2010s on DVD, and developed a massive crush on Evanna Lynch as soon as she appeared onscreen. I loved her portrayal of Luna, and enjoyed all the Luna scenes that were shown in that film.
At the time, I was definitely in the minority of male HP fans. I know what you mean when you said people criticised you for liking her.
Honestly, I’ve always been attracted to people like that. Evanna Lynch had a lot of personality in the films (far more than Emma Watson did, anyway), and that was what attracted me to her. She seemed like someone who you could hang around with, and enjoy her company.
Luna is awesome, and my second-favourite character in the series after Ron. Evanna understood Luna from the get-go, and I’ve always loved her portrayal of the character.
Even nowadays, I’m still attracted to women who remind me of Evanna Lynch. At Uni, I had a crush on a Norwegian girl who had the same hair and type-of-personality as Evanna.
Societal definitions of ‘normal’ are pointless anyway. Everybody’s weird, and I think that being attracted to kind, compassionate and loving people like Luna is an incredibly healthy form of attraction. Screw people who criticise others who liking someone who’s supposedly-’weird’.
And, as @justsaya, @hillnerd and @gaylittlepieceofsh1t will no-doubt back me up on; Evanna Lynch is amazing, and it should be no shock that people are attracted to her.
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