Evanna Lynch on JK Rowling

Just googled Evanna . She is from Termonfeckin , County Louth.
All I know about that place is it was where the Irish Countrywomen's Association was Headquartered .
Hard to imagine them being ' captured'.

But then , Gaelic Sports are under siege so who knows.

I don’t dispute it. Although it is a bit of an all or nothing debate.

Actually you can be more middle ground and not think everything is black and white.

I love Evanna and personally find her really brave. It’s hard enough for people to say anything normally and yet she is in the public . When she didn’t immediately denounce JK she was trolled horribly.

I suspect that she’s had a full change of heart but is being diplomatic. Not that you can be diplomatic with the TRAs- so many of them seem to think that JKR wants trans people dead.

I thought it was a lovely thoughtful interview

Its also a very good way to talk about ROGD. People can argue that she isn't a biologist, or a psychologist etc etc so how does she know that transition isn't the right thing. But she does know what it was like to be a teenage girl, and what it s like to grow into a woman and look back at yourself. I think most people on this board also know that. So she is 100% qualified to give her opinion on that (one of the times when "lived experience" is genuinely relevant).

But just the fact that you are disagreeing with her statement proves there is disagreement!

She's saying there's disagreement which is an objective fact.
She's not saying the disagreement is valid or that one/either sides view is justifiable.

"The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable."

No, there really isn't, Evanna. Not when you consider material reality.

Children under 11, the elderly and infirm, and the disabled are always the most vulnerable in any society.

I don't know how we got to the point where certain types of able-bodied adults became labelled as more vulnerable than individuals who cannot feed themselves. Or walk. Or talk. Or dress themselves.

Evanna's always been more thoughtful than the others.

I'll never forgive Radcliffe's statement. Mansplaining little twerp. Makes me rage just thinking about it.

Agreed, Fukuraptor - it takes some courage even though the tide is now turning, especially for someone whose livelihood is in the (captured) arts sector. (Btw, you were right first time, it's "beyond the pale" - a pale being some kind of wooden fortification IIRC)

She's very thoughtful, even the first time around and more so now.

I think that's the thing I found hardest about all of the stuff around JKR, not that people disagreed with her or thought her mistaken (people often disagree about all sorts of things).

But that despite the ample evidence of her actions and views through the years and through her stories - people were so ready to believe utterly awful things about her and her intentions. They vilified her, ascribed views to her the complete opposite to those she had expressed and put her beyond the pale(pail?) of even being worthy of listening to and debating in good faith.

It has been pretty alarming, and as I read her say recently, a deliberate tactic to silence women who don't have her advantages.

I'm glad Lynch is speaking up for Rowling, I think it is the right thing to do but it does take courage to choose to enter/re-enter the fray. But it helps!

I want to add something meaningful to this discussion, but now all I have in my head is the image of being bankrolled by dementors, which is making me giggle.

I think Evanna's comments the first time around were respectful and reasonable, and so they are again. She has behaved far more decently than any of the other young actors.

Where did you get that from? The article literally says that neither evanna nor jkr mentioned any connection during the audition process and she auditioned via an open audition. If you Google every other article shes done about how she got cast says the same thing!

I think that's a brilliant statement 👏

@dimorphism we don't want them in slytherin
I always thought that she had tried (but failed) to walk a reasonable line between publicly demonising jk and supporting her as a person whilst disagreeing with her opinion in the clumsy way people in their 20s often do. She paid a high price for that attempt. However I suspect that with age, experience and talking to detransitioners she has come to realise that she is one of them only because she is that bit older she was caught in the social contagion of anorexia rather than that of ROGD. I have seen this happen in real life and it horrifies them just how close they came and completely changes their perspective on it. Having been through the tra/gc ringer already its extremely brave of her to come back and basically double down on team jk/gc and I applaud her for it.
This is how the golden bridge system works the first ones over are always the fence sitters and if they are seen to be supported and welcomed more will come over and start to bring the more entrenched then a trickle becomes a flood until all that is left on the otherside are the extremists who deserve everything that's coming to them.
We need more bridges it's how we win this

There's an archived copy here: archive.ph/UJ8S9

I thought it was a good article and wouldn't want to be too picky about the exact wording she used - clearly her heart is in the right place.

I thought good for her - she is thinking and developing and is repeatedly very kind about JKR as a person. I don't have to agree with everything she says. She is standing up in public in view of her woke colleagues and woke acting employers. I thought she has guts reading the interview.

And as to the number of times she uses I - she is being interviewed about herself not just about the GC stuff and why should she not. Men use I, I, I all the time - why, when a woman is interviewed, should she have to make it all about someone else or something else. She is entitled to her moment and to speak about herself most of all.

It is a sick reflection of our society that we have conpetitions as to who is the most vulnerable.

“The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable“

there is absolutely no need for a Most Vulnerable Olympics, and I'm sure people who live with disabilities are giving a hollow laugh when they see tripe like that posted.

Lynch has an interesting opinion. Given how she got the part, and the interest JKR showed in a vulnerable young woman, it is not surprising that she has come to realise the whole situation is much more nuanced than "everyone wants us to die, literal genocide"

I can't remember much about HP plot - wasn't Snape, head of Slytherin, considered to be a mean nasty arsehole but he was still looking out for Harry all along, even though he didn't like him much, and even when it made him look bad/put him in danger?
I can't remember how it all ended so I'm not 'aligning myself with Snape' btw... nor am I bankrolled by the dementors or whatever it was...

Agree that a few years on, she's standing firm on her original view and I'm so pleased she has in no uncertain terms made it clear she won't jump on the witch hunt bus.

Maybe she could have said more however I get the need in that industry to still want to protect herself from any backlash. As we know women who speak up don't get a pass

I didn't know about her eating disorder. That must have been tough. But also gives credibility when she says she gets what it feels like to hate the skin you were born in.

Always bloody loved Luna. Wonderfully bonkers 😊

Love this post. Arabella, thank you

“The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable“

that is a vey important issue. The TRA lobby pedal the “most marginalised and vulnerable” in society line all the time. Ie no debate over that statement. They are not a homogeneous blob and while some are marginalised and vulnerable, many aren’t and in the meanwhile the rights of vulnerable women and the safeguarding of children have been swept away and trampled over

Given that Voldemort, Draco Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange have supported JKR throughout and its the weak trio of Harry Ron and Hermione who have criticised her I think you mean Evanna is finding her inner Slytherin!