--- title: Luna Lovegood Unhappy With Pottermore Patronus Spirit Animal description: Actress Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, revealed that she was not happy with her Patronus quiz results. canonical: https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T20:37:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:57.402Z og:title: Luna Lovegood Loses It Over Her Pottermore Patronus og:description: "Why oh why is my Patronus a SALMON?!" og:url: https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4143cb1c46aecd8/6988a75597cdff87d16ade82/luna-lovegood-patronus-response.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Harry Potter Cast - Photocall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Luna Lovegood Loses It Over Her Pottermore Patronus twitter:description: "Why oh why is my Patronus a SALMON?!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4143cb1c46aecd8/6988a75597cdff87d16ade82/luna-lovegood-patronus-response.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Luna Lovegood Is in Total Crisis Mode Over Her Embarrassing _Harry Potter_ Spirit Animal > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Chris Jackson—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 23, 2016 8:37 PM UTC Actress Evanna Lynch — who played the [daffy but wise Luna Lovegood](http://time.com/4141257/universal-studios-hollywood-grand-opening-date-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter/) in the [_Harry Potter_ movie franchise](http://time.com/4429897/harry-potter-cursed-child-deathly-hallows/) — was among the thousands of fans who flocked to [Pottermore’s website to take a quiz to determine what their patronus was](http://time.com/4504169/patronus-pottermore/), after the long-awaited quiz hit the Internet this week. In the films, Lynch’s patronus for Lovegood was a hare, but after taking the official quiz, she was assigned a salmon, which wasn’t quite what she had anticipated. Lynch took to Twitter to air her grievances about what she felt was a grave mistake on the part of the patronus quiz, especially given her strong affection for all things feline. > [](https://twitter.com/Evy%5FLynch/status/779109549894692865) She was very much in her feelings about it, as her abundance of tweets evidence. > [](https://twitter.com/Evy%5FLynch/status/779113356745670656) > [](https://twitter.com/Evy%5FLynch/status/779114239780716549) However, some of her fans attempted to make her feel better about the situation, by pointing out the positives. > [](https://twitter.com/iiiiiiisabelle/status/779115964285804544) While others commiserated with her as fellow salmons. > [](https://twitter.com/charlotte%5Fsanto/status/778998135880294467) > [](https://twitter.com/beccychampagne/status/779141495886647296) > [](https://twitter.com/markokloos/status/779035619490136064) Luna seemed to feel a little better about the situation later. > [](https://twitter.com/Evy%5FLynch/status/779116247527063552) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/"},"headline":"Luna Lovegood Is in Total Crisis Mode Over Her Embarrassing Harry Potter Spirit Animal","datePublished":"2016-09-23T20:37:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:57.402Z","description":"\"Why oh why is my Patronus a SALMON?!\"","url":"https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Harry Potter","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4143cb1c46aecd8/6988a75597cdff87d16ade82/luna-lovegood-patronus-response.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4143cb1c46aecd8/6988a75597cdff87d16ade82/luna-lovegood-patronus-response.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Harry Potter Cast - Photocall","caption":"Harry Potter Cast - Photocall","creditText":"Chris Jackson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4506358/luna-lovegood-patronus-quiz/","name":"Luna Lovegood Is in Total Crisis Mode Over Her Embarrassing Harry Potter Spirit Animal"}}]}] ```