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Evanna Lynch has a lot to be grateful for from Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The Deathly Hallows actress says that before she was cast as the lovely and loopy Luna, she wrote to Rowling and the mega-successful author was inspirational in helping her overcome an eating disorder at the young age of 11.

“I told her the books gave me hope, particularly Luna Lovegood,” said Evanna. “I told how I looked up to her. She wrote back and was like a counsellor. She told me anorexia is destructive, not creative, and the brave thing was not to succumb to it. I told her I’d love to be in the films and she encouraged that but said I’d need to be well to do so. In the end I think that’s why I recovered.”

Lynch, of course, went on to win the role she was so captivated with and has been able to put her anorexia behind her to costar in the HP films. (She really is a perfect Luna, don’t you think?)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is in theaters now.

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Earlier today I posted about the contest celebrating the DVD orders of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Actors Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) were on hand launching 1000 balloons from the Millenium Bridge in the UK. Here are some photos from the event. If you live in the UK and are 18 years or older, click here to find out how to enter and win a trip to the set of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and become a moving portrait in the film.

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