OOP: Loony Luna

[quiet_cassandra]

No: HPFGUIDX 62736


elfundeb/Debbie wrote:
> I rather liked Luna from the beginning, and (though I missed the 
>Crookshanks clue) hoped she would turn out to be more than a simple 
>caricature of someone who reads magazines with headlines like "Woman 
>Bears Child of Space Alien!"  The evidence was there from the start 
>that it's a part she plays in public; when she tells Harry she can 
>see the thestrals, she is calm, gentle in fact, and to the point.  
>Whenever she speaks to Harry one-on-one, I'm struck by her matter-of-
>fact honesty, and never more so than in her final conversation with 
>Harry.  Thus, I think what Crookshanks senses is that Luna, like 
>Sirius-as-Padfoot, is not what she seems.  Not everything that 
>arouses Crookshanks' suspicion is unsavory or evil, though.  It's 
>just that our most vivid memory of such behavior involves Pettigrew.


I would very much agree with this.  As "loony" as Luna comes off, we 
have to remember that she *is* in Ravenclaw.  And while we've seen 
the random character here and there not fitting in with the general 
characteristics of their house, it always seems to come true in the 
end.  (I'm thinking mainly Neville, here)

Random personal experience: I think I'm fairly intelligent, but often 
it's simply easier to play it dumb.  Not only because people tend to 
expect less, but because it also makes it really easy to watch those 
around you.  When they think you're an idiot, people tend to say and 
do things around you that they wouldn't normally.  

Basically, I would expect some really good things from Luna in the 
future.  I did sort of get the feeling that she was a replacement for 
the Weasley cousin, but I still think she will be a good addition to 
the "group."


Cass.