[HPforGrownups] OOP: Luna! The new Hermione??

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 66354

At 12:24 AM -0400 7/1/03, phoenixtears288 at cs.com wrote:
>
>    I must admit that when Luna first came into the book, I didn't 
>like her. But as the book progressed, we got to learn more about 
>Luna's character. And by the end of the book, Luna got moved up to 
>the favorites.

*chuckle* If you averaged Luna and Hermione, you'd get a pretty good 
version of me, age 15, only I was fatter.  And I would have been 
after either Neville or Harry rather than Ron.

>But, JKR can still speak herself through Hermione. Like giving us 
>facts about things about the war. So, let's see. JKR speaks through 
>Hermione by facts; Dumbledore about love and emotion and the past, 
>and now Luna. Hmm. Why is JKR speaking through her?

Easy:

Dumbledore speaks from the Heart, and about the Past.

Hermione speaks from the Mind, and about the Present (except when she 
references _Hogwarts, A History_)

Luna speaks from the Spirit, and about the Future.


-- 

  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles(at)earthlink.net
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the 
act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
	- Gauss, in a Letter to Bolyai, 1808.