Luna and Harry

[Tara]

No: HPFGUIDX 75766

greatlit2003 wrote:
> Hi. Sorry if this has been posted already, I haven't read everything.
> Could Luna and Harry grow closer, and possibly start dating? They
> both have an interesting outlook on the world because of their life
> experiences.

I think that there is the potential for understanding and friendship between
them, but I'm not sure I can see them dating, really.  But then with JKR,
who knows.

> I cannot imagine any ordinary girl (like Cho) dating
> Harry again, because they cannot understand him. His life, as we see
> at the end of OOP, is beyond the kind of stuff ordinary teenagers do.

I agree.  But I also think that this is the same reason why Ginny Weasley
could be a good match for Harry down the road.  Ginny is really the only one
of Harry's friends that has had to face Voldemort (as Tom Riddle, but she
still had to face him), and JKR has made a few references to this.  In book
3, when the Dementors come onto the train, she mentions Ginny's reaction,
and Ginny seems to be the person who is most affected (next to Harry of
course) by the Dementors.  Then in book 5, when Harry's feeling sorry for
himself after Mr. Weasley is attacked by the snake, Ginny tells him to
basically knock it off, and that he has never been possessed by Voldemort.
She, on the other hand, has.  I just thought it was interesting because the
other characters seems to forget for the most part that Ginny had a pretty
nasty ordeal with Voldemort in the second book, and yet her experience makes
her someone that Harry could potentially really talk to about some of things
he has to deal with.

Jazmyn wrote:
> I suggested this as part of the posts on Harry and Cho, but noone seemed
> to pick up on it.  I feel Luna and Harry will in fact grow closer.  They
> have a lot in common afterall, being as both were thought of as crazy,
> though Luna wasn't troubled by the fact.  In fact, she's not rattled by
> anything really.

I do think they will grow closer, but I don't know if it will be
romantically.

acoteucla:
> I also am in favor of Harry & Luna hooking up.  However, the idea
> really doesn't seem to have a lot of popularity on this board.
> Probably because Luna is so weird, and so they don't want it to
> happen.

I don't know about anybody else, but for me, I don't see it mostly because
I'm strongly in favour of Ginny and Harry getting closer throughout the next
two books. :)


> Erin:
> I also think she'd be good
> for Harry, even if only for a time. They play off one another well and she
> balances out Hermione as a female influence.

I love the way she and Hermione interact.  They're such opposites.

Tara