Chris C Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 (edited) Great announcement. On a serious note, will Katie get a minder? I suggest this as there were a lot of jealous female Harry Potter fans giving her a lot of grief after she got to kiss Daniel Radcliffe so for Katie's sake and her enjoyment at LFCC, can a firm eye and ear be kept on this during the convention please and any abusive people be shown the door? Edited April 3, 2018 by Chris C clarification of sentence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylenth Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1 minute ago, Chris C said: Great announcement. On a serious note, will Katie get a minder? I suggest this as there were a lot of jealous female Harry Potter fans giving her a lot of grief after she got to kiss Daniel Radcliffe so for Katie's sake and her enjoyment at LFCC, can a firm eye and ear be kept on this during the convention please and any abusive people be shown the door? You don't need to worry about stuff like this Chris, the organisers are very aware of things like this and will provide security to anyone who needs it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Hi Raylenth, Good to hear. Katie often mentions unpleasant racial based harassment on her interviews to magazines so I hope she enjoys LFCC and comes back in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen_Sindel Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 She's been at Collectormania Manchester before. Granted it's been a while, but technically speaking she already is back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 It was a pleasure to meet Katie and her friend today in LFCC - she is great to talk to and has the friendly Lanarkshire manner. Thank you for your autograph Katie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicky Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 8:59 PM, Chris C said: there were a lot of jealous female Harry Potter fans giving her a lot of grief after she got to kiss Daniel Radcliffe Is this still a thing? It was years ago! HP Fans always knew her character kisses Harry in the books though before the films were made so why get upset about it? If anyone would be jealous I'd have thought it would have been the 1000s of other applicants who didn't land the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faerie Tanith Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 1 hour ago, nicky said: Is this still a thing? It was years ago! HP Fans always knew her character kisses Harry in the books though before the films were made so why get upset about it? If anyone would be jealous I'd have thought it would have been the 1000s of other applicants who didn't land the role. We're talking over ten years ago now, bless the poor girl if she's still getting grief for it! But she was honestly so lovely! First Ravenclaw I've had the privilege of meeting and she was happy to chat for a while before signing my picture. Absolute sweetie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, Faerie Tanith said: We're talking over ten years ago now, bless the poor girl if she's still getting grief for it! But she was honestly so lovely! First Ravenclaw I've had the privilege of meeting and she was happy to chat for a while before signing my picture. Absolute sweetie! Yes, Katie was very nice to talk to. Racism is a topic Katie does bring up in her interviews: http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14273569.Katie_Leung_on_life_after_Harry_Potter_and_battling_racist_stereotypes/. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/harry-potter-actress-katie-leung-i-regularly-experience-racism/ Not all HP fans will have read the books or even if they had, they still got jealous. Yes, it was a while ago but given what happened to Katie (who took a break from acting in response). We do live in the age of trolls (hopefully this age is fading as a lot of message boards, like You Tube comments section, are self policing with most reasonable people no longer accepting any troll comments to stand) and given the size of LFCC, some spiteful person could have been tempted to yell some unpleasant words at Katie and disappear into the crowd (just like trolls try to do on-line). Other conventions nowadays have a big sign at the entrance warning anyone who is abusive to guests (so I presume not just Katie is a potential target for vindictive people) will be removed with no refund of their ticket cost (as it should be). Edited July 30, 2018 by Chris C Correcting punctuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamA96 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 I found Katie to be a timid little thing when I met her but cute and lovely at the same time. I narrowly missed out on her photoshoot because I was preoccupied with another one but I got it. Here's hoping they have more harry potter guests next year e.g. Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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