Hump Day Harry Potter

Thousands attend Luna open audition

An estimated 15,000 teenage girls this morning queued up at the London open auditions for the part of Luna Lovegood in OOTP.

Some hopefuls slept outside since yesterday, while others began arriving as early as 12:30 AM.
EDITOR'S NOTE: MAKES YA WISH YOU WERE AN ODD-LOOKING LITTLE BRITISH GIRL, HUH?

AND A POST-SCRIPT TO THE CATTLE CALL......

Luna hopefuls down to 400
Warner Bros. announced today that they have narrowed down the 15,000 Luna Lovegood hopefuls who turned up at the open casting call on Saturday to just 400.

OOTP casting director Fiona Weir said:"We were really amazed at the response and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who gave up their Saturday. Even though we had many thousands more than anticipated, we were determined to see everyone who came along."

Those girls who made it through to round two had a wide range of accents, backgrounds and ethnicity, coming from all over Britain and Ireland, said WB. The film company's casting department will shortly contact those auditionees they wish to see again.