OOP: Loony Luna

[Sara_ELL]

No: HPFGUIDX 62795

 
Debbie wrote:
 
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> >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. 
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Me:
I also liked Luna (certainly more than Ginny... unless Ginny starts 
taking over from where Fred and George left off) - especially the 
empathy which Harry seems to share with her with respect to being a 
bit of an outcast. I thought that her ridiculousness (the Griffindor 
lion hat, for example) and her obliviousness to others reactions to 
her, were quite poignant, when in her final conversation with Harry, 
we realise that she is sensitive and perceptive as to how others 
perceive her.  Her little interaction also served to demonstrate 
that Harry, though superficially resembling James (about which much 
is made by Harry and others throughout the whole series), is also 
Lily's child. As we saw in Snape's pensieve, 15 year-old James (I'm 
not even going to attempt to defend him) would have joined in with 
the others and ridiculed her whereas one can imagine Lily 
demonstrating the compassion that Harry did. On the otherhand - had 
Harry NOT seen (and been disillusioned by) the pensieve, he may not 
have acted any diffently.

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> > 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. 
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Me:
Perhaps, like Lupin, she too is a werewolf . . . Luna remember! 

Cass wrote:

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> 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)
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Me:
Very astute point about Luna & her house allocation - I think that 
she is an intelligent, highly sensitive person whose seen more than 
the ordinary Hogwarts student. JKR is constantly teaching the 
readers to look beyond the superficial (Harry's relationship with 
Cho is one example, I believe) - there's no way that Luna will end 
up being "Loony" for the rest of the book. 

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> 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.  
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Me:
It's amazing what you hear when people think that you're the 
shy, "quiet" one ... 

> 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."

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Me:
And I think that it's obvious that she's got a thing for Harry! 
Actually, I really do like her more than Ginny (go figure)...


Sara

 

> Cass.