Luna Lovegood can see the future.

[alice_loves_cats]

No: HPFGUIDX 87276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, vmonte at y... wrote:

> Also, 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 examples>

> 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. I think Rowling 
> didn't bring Luna into the picture until now because she was afraid 
> the character would give too much away (and someone annoying like me 
> would figure it out). 

<snip part about Ron>

Alice:

I think this is a really good idea. I'm not sure it's right, but hey
I'd love it to be.

If it were, my take on it would be as follows:
She is not a Seer in the way Trelawney is, spitting out
predicitions/prophecies at random moments and not remembering having
ever said them afterwards. Maybe there's another form to Seeing. Like
old Snape said about mind-reading: it's not as simple as that, you
can't just open the mind like a book and start reading. So maybe you
can't just open the future like a book and start reading. But Luna may
have the gift to FEEL certain things, have notions about what TYPE of
thing is going to happen, not always but more often than not, and
definitely more often than Hag Trelawney. These feelings may not be
easy to interpret, even to herself. So she doesn't talk.

Love, Alice
---desperate for a Heliopath (spirits of flame, weren't they, or does
my memory betray me?) to appear... they sound like fun & danger