Luna Lovegood can see the future.

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 vmonte at y... wrote:
> <snip> I think Luna may be able to see the future. I don't think 
she  has completely mastered it, but the idea makes sense if you 
think about some of her behavior in OOTP. 
<snip>
> She hasn't told anyone because she has knowledge that it would be 
> better not to, hasn't needed to, knows the future is not fixed, 
> doesn't want Voldemort to find out, and most importantly doesn't 
want to give the last two books away for JKR Rowling. 


Mandy here:
Very interesting and it occurred to me while reading your post that 
another reason she may not to tell anyone is because of the way Seers 
and practioners of Divination are treated in the WW.  Only those of 
exceptional ability and have been able to prove that ability are 
treated with any kind of respect.  I'm sure that if the teenage 
daughter of the publisher of the Quibbler started to claim she could 
see the future, she would be laughed out of the room.  

Seeing the future has got to be a hard thing to prove to others.  
After all if you can predict the future everyone expects you to be 
able to do something about it and/or take advantage of it even though 
that may be impossible.  

Perhaps Luna is suffering from the Cassandra syndrome, where she can 
predict the future, but no one believes her? Or cannot change it? 

Or perhaps she saw her own mother's death and way unable to stop it?  
That would make a child deny a gift like that.  Or if not deny then 
push away.

The more I think about it, what a curse that would be for a child to 
carry around.  It might explain why she is such an outcast and 
dosen't seem affected by the petty way the other kids treat her. Luna 
does seem resigned to her fate in life.

Mandy