Has anyone seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix featuring the lovely Irish actress Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood?

I saw her and I felt she was very good at playing a unsettlingly creepy character.

PLAYING? I've heard she actually IS the character…

Yeah, she really played the character well. I've not read the book, but I've heard from those who have that she fit the description perfectly. I don't really know what to think about the character Luna though. On the one hand, she just seems kind of misunderstood, but on the other hand, she does seem genuinely crazy.

I'm sorry no. The character of Luna Lovegood was terrible in the film. Luna's “looniness” is supposed to be from the fact she is constantly talking about conspiracies and non existent creatures. Not from the fact that she's totally far away.

What do you guys think of the new book? Have any of you read it? Liked it? I don't wanna reveal spoilers to anyone if your planning on reading it but if some of you have then I'll go through the trouble of coding some messages about it. Quite frankly the battle was not what I wanted and the epilouge ruined the series in my view

http://forums.ghostbusters.net/viewtopic.php?p=122205#122205 Feel free to use this thread Inerbrianta to discuss HP7 freely.

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I'm sorry no. The character of Luna Lovegood was terrible in the film. Luna's “looniness” is supposed to be from the fact she is constantly talking about conspiracies and non existent creatures. Not from the fact that she's totally far away.

I don't know, Iain, when I read it, I imagined her to be all loopy, but that's just me.

I thought the movie was a disappointment. I'm tired of crucial moments getting left out for the sake of time or budget

I just saw the movie for the first time today and I must say I was disappointed. Having read the book ahwile ago, I was still able to tell very noticable changes and stuff left out. Just in the beginning along you miss out on just how much Harry is left out of the loop, and his anger towards others for it. I mean during the movie he talks about how much he's alike towards Voldemort but you don't recieve any feelings why other than when he desribes seeing through Nagini's point of view. You miss out on Harry's Aunt revealing more of her feelings of knowledge of the wizardry world, and the fact that even she knows of Lord Voldemort. The way they traveled to the OotP's headquarters were wrong. The movie was just bad in my eyes, it just didn't compare like the other ones.

I thought the movie was very good. I was expecting them to have to miss out so much due to the sheer length of the book, but I think they actually managed to get all of the important parts in. Just occasionally in these films, I think there is something that's done better than in the book; in this case, I think Neville being the one to tell Harry what happened to his parents has a lot more impact than Dumbledore blabbing all of Neville's business to him (as he does in the book).

My one major gripe is the way the discovery of the DA by Umbridge was handled. In the film, Snape has been giving Veritaserum to Umbridge in order to interrogate all of the students. And it's real. In the book, he's giving it to her only for Harry - and of course, it isn't real, Snape wouldn't give her real Veritaserum. It's the betrayal that's real. In the book, they are betrayed by Cho's friend Marietta (like no one saw that coming). I quite understand why they spliced her character with Cho's in the film, but the whole Veritaserum thing both cheapens it and brings Snape across all wrong.

I also thought Luna was very good. Everything about her is testament to her looniness, and Rowling usually describes her as looking “dreamy” or “faraway”. There wasn't a lot of room for her to talk about conspiracies and such in the film, which didn't bother me - but I do hope that the subsequent films will leave room for the development she needs.