“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]
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