Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch Wants Fans To Give JK Rowling A Second Chance
Harry Potter's Evanna Lynch Wants Fans To Give JK Rowling A Second Chance
Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch Wants Fans To Give JK Rowling A Second Chance
“I was very naïve when I was dragged into that conversation,” said Evanna Lynch in a February 2023 interview with The Telegraph. “I didn’t even know there were two sides. I had a view of, like, good and bad.”
Though she reiterates that she doesn’t want to add to the pain trans people experience (comparing their dysmorphia to her experience of being “a teenager who hated my body so much I wanted to crawl out of my skin”), she believes J.K. Rowling’s work in “amplifying the voices of de-transitioners” has been “important.” In a 2020 analysis of Rowling’s initial claims about so-called “de-transitioners,” Insider wrote that Rowling had mischaracterized the concept both in scope and reasoning, citing a study that found less than 1 percent of people who transition ultimately regret their choice.
For Lynch, while she doesn’t seem to champion either side of this issue anymore, she does express her support for Rowling’s perspective to be heard. “I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society,” she said. “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.”
Lynch is joined in her support of Rowling by fellow “Harry Potter” alum Helena Bonham Carter, who lightly accused those castmates who distanced themselves from Rowling (such as Daniel Radcliffe) of merely protecting their fanbase. Rowling has also courted the favor of personalities ranging from activist Dennis Noel Kavanagh (whom she personally welcomed back to Twitter after a tweet about preferring the AIDs epidemic to trans charities got him banned) to popular conservative commentator and self-described “theocratic fascist” Matt Walsh.
