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...

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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?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/4/2023, 3:23 AM
@KaptainKhaos - Those who may come at her for having opinions can chill as well.
Origame
Origame - 3/4/2023, 7:26 AM
@KaptainKhaos - again, a game that had nothing to do with her got flack. Imagine if her name was on it.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 8:37 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - it's not okay to harass anyone, it's the same as showing your bits to another man.

It has to do with intent, I know many socially conservative folks like yourself only think of various sinister intentions but that's really not the case.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/4/2023, 9:20 AM
@KaptainKhaos - A man standing naked in a man’s locker room is expected and normal. That is not harassment,

A man standing naked in a woman’s locker room is improper, harassment and assault.

Women do particularly different things with other women that they would not do with men.
But again I you show that you are okay with a mentally disturbed man who thinks he is a woman to expose himself and behave like a woman around and with other women.
That’s why the trans “woman” (biological male) was put in a woman’s prison in New Jersey because “she” (he) got two women pregnant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna38947

Funny because I don’t see biological women getting other women pregnant because women cannot product sperm and don’t have a penis.

It has nothing to do with Conservative values. It has everything to do with the science around biology.

You know…the “settled science” that you Lefties claim to support.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 12:09 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - but we are talking about active harassment. A man actively exposing himself to another man and making them uncomfortable is still harassment.

If a man who self identifies as a woman is changing in the change room is using a towel to cover up their bits or using a private changing room, would you still consider that to be a form of harassment?

What are your thoughts on fathers who bring their daughters into mens change rooms or washrooms, or mothers who bring their sons into women's change rooms or washrooms?

Could a woman standing in a men's changing room be considered improper harassment and assault?.

I'm not okay with anyone exposing themselves without consent, equally between when a hetero or trans person does it.

If that person committed a crime then naturally they should face the consequences.

Isn't NBC News considered Mainstream Media and therefore fake news? ;)

I've also never met a woman with a trans partner who provided them with a child either but that doesn't mean there's not consensual relationships like that out there.

Science and Biology are constantly evolving and it's natural for folks to want to question it, that's how we continue to learn and grow.

I think it has less with to do of me being a "lefty" and just more of someone who supports the freedoms and liberties of an individual who just wants to be left alone and cause no harm to others, much like responsible gun owners.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/4/2023, 4:18 PM
@KaptainKhaos - You are bouncing all over the place trying to defend your argument and you can’t.

“ A man actively exposing himself to another man and making them uncomfortable is still harassment.”

A naked man in a man’s locker room is expected.
That’s not harassment.
But a naked man in a woman’s locker room is not only harassment but indecent exposure.
Even if a man covers himself with a towel he had to get naked first to over himself with a towel.
I can’t believe you are actually trying to justify a man exposing himself to women.

So now you don’t trust your own news source?
Slick, It was a case filed on a police blotter.
So you are so desperate to defend this insanity that you are trying to ignore a trans “woman” (man) who knocked up two woman.

You are flailing.

“Science and Biology are constantly evolving”
WOAH. You said that?
So then “climate change” which you call “settled science” is now NOT settled science?
Biology is biology. There are males and females and that’s it.
It’s so desperate and funny watching you try and fail to defend your argument.

You can’t.

So you are okay with the rights of others ….oh but screw the rights of women and young girls who want to change in a locker room without a naked man undressing feet away from them.

And as for a bathroom and children. That is a bathroom. The parents are with the kid and they bring the kid into a stall.
It’s supervised and there aren’t naked people running around.

But since you brought up bathrooms then I have to mention the Trans “woman” (male) who assaulted a young girl in a woman’s bathroom.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/adult-who-at-17-sexually-assaulted-child-is-sentenced-to-juvenile-facility-in-l-a-county/amp/

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/08/19/transgender-sexual-assault-report-bathroom-brevard-randy-fine-fdoe-could-bring-new-state-rules/10356216002/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/29/trans-bathroom-policy-sexual-assault/8568005002/

Just three stories of many.
Any man can say he “feels like a woman” then go into a girls bathroom and assault a young woman.
And you are okay with that. That’s perverse.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 7:16 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - I'm not really arguing with you but more having a conversation and asking your options on other situations. When you get off the keyboard and have conversations outside, they tend to bounce around.

You can definitely wrap a towel around your waist and change.

I never cited any news source, the fake news bit was something some call humor.


Where exactly did I say "settled science"?, You keep claiming I'm using these terms but I'm not.

Science and Biology has indeed evolved over years, that's why we study and learn.

No I very much support women's rights as well, I know that must sound "woke" to you but I do.

As I have stated, I don't support people being harassed or assaulted and those who cause harm to others should be punished, and once again no it's not okay.

I feel like you might be ignoring the difference of men with criminal intentions and actual trans folks who just want to live their lives and be left alone.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/4/2023, 7:35 PM
@KaptainKhaos - I fully support all rights that human beings have. It's the right of a Trans person to be Trans, but it's not their right to expose themselves in front of biological women. That is in fact illegal.

Everyone has the same rights, but if a straight male went into a locker room and exposed himself he would be arrested for lewd behavior, exhibitionism and assault.

If a straight woman went into a male locker room and exposed herself the men would most likely protect her and she would be escorted out, but then arrested for lewd behavior and exhibitionism.

If a Trans female (MALE) walks into a woman's locker room and exposes himself because he has male parts the same rules should apply to him as it does to a straight male.
The fact that you are saying it should not shows that rights are not equal and that a Trans female (MALE) has more rights than a male.

Criminality is not simply measured by intent. You can intend to shoot and kill someone and that is first degree murder. You can not intend to shoot and kill someone and it happens accidentally then you are charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The law only cares about intent in the duration of the time served, but you are still guilty of the crime.

A man could accidentally walk into a woman's locker room and he would get a much lesser charge, or no charge. While a man who intentionally walks into a woman's locker room will suffer a much more severe charge.

And who is to say a Trans female (MALE) has good intentions when they expose themselves in a woman's locker room. They are already mentally unstable, and now they could be using their Trans excuse as a way to get access to undressed women and expose themselves.

It's a slippery slope, and with no verifiably definitive biological test to prove a gender then you can't confirm intent.

There is absolutely no way that I am going to accept this as normal and acceptable behavior because it isn't.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/4/2023, 8:56 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - there we go, some progress can be made from this conversation. I'm absolutely not here to be your enemy, I'm just here to civilly discuss things.

It's been a long time since I've been in a civic center change room but when I was younger they also had private changing stalls one could change in if they didn't want to change infront of others, could that be more acceptable for a trans person who just wants to be left alone and doesn't want to cause harm to others?, Should the same be with trans men? Or is trans women a bigger issue?.

Why would a straight woman be protected by the men if she intended to cause them harm?

If a trans woman goes into an empty locker room and changes, is it still an issue?.

No I still feel that women and trans women both have the same amount of equal rights.

Have you actively met or spoken to many folks in the trans community?, They aren't the mentally unstable monsters that those who hate them want them to be, those would be the actual predators who have used this as an excuse.

So if you see a trans woman sitting in the park alone feeding the ducks, are you automatically assume there is some sinister intent brewing?, What about a trans man reading a book in a library, would you need reassurance of their intent?
JLa0620
JLa0620 - 3/4/2023, 11:35 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - the fact you consistently refer to trans people as “mentally unstable” is not only disgusting, but essentially discredits any opinion you express from the get-go. The point here is (or should be) on making people feel comfortable (all people not just trans people) and not just about dropping a child in the opposite locker room because they are trans. Do you honestly think in a school or a summer camp or anywhere there are other small children and this situation comes up they’re not going to take precautions for all children to feel comfortable? Things such as providing a private changing room inside of sad locker rooms or allowing the trans child to use the preferred locker room, but perhaps change when the other children aren’t in there, either right before or after. How about use your brain and think like an educated person. You’re making generalizations to just aren’t going to be the case in every situation or even most of them. I pray you don’t have children and if you do, I hope they have a better influence then you, sir.

I have an eight year old, trans niece that was born my nephew. There were no medical procedures, no hormone therapy, nothing like that. My brother and his sister-in-law are essentially letting Spencer do what makes her happy at this point in life. When her younger sister was born and started to grow Spencer became very sad that she wasn’t also able to also wear dresses, or grow her hair long, or wear pink, or play with unicorns and dolls. So they let her, and guess what, she became a very happy child. One day Spencer came home from school sad and my sister-in-law asked what was wrong? She told her that another child at school called her a boy. When my sister-in-law asked Spencer how that made her feel her reply was “it makes my heart hurt”. If you were the parent in that situation, would you really be able to choose anything over your childs happiness and ability to feel comfortable iin life? Obviously as Spencer becomes older things will quite possibly get more difficult but she has a strong support system at home and at school and I have yet to hear one person, friend, family, acquaintance or anyone else that has had a negative word to say about it. Only faceless, unwilling to evolve with the times, scared and uninformed sounding people like yourself on the internet!



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