[HPforGrownups] OOP: SHIP: Luna/Ron

[Wendy St John]

No: HPFGUIDX 65580



kewirome said:
>
> Now, I dont like the idea of these ship posts, but I will
> post it anyways.
> After looking through book 4, and checking out the Quidditch
> World Cup trip, in
> which Diggory tells Weasley that the Lovegoods have already
> gotten there a
> week ago.
>
> This brings us to infer that a) the Lovegoods did not have
> prime seats and b)
> the Weasleys and Lovegoods live relatively close together.
> Hermoine seems to
> have a pretty easy time accessing Ron between school terms,
> but Lovegoods and
> Weasley live near eachother.

Suzanne wrote:

"Sorry, but I don't see how you can possibly infer that the Lovegoods and
the
Weasleys live near each other."


Now me (Wendy):

Not a big stretch to infer this, really. Let's take a look at the canon:


GoF, The Portkey:

(page 67, UK hardback)
 "Long walk, Arthur?" Cedric's father asked.

"Not too bad," said Mr. Weasley. "We live just on the other side of the
village there. You?"

"Had to get up at two, didn't, we, Ced? I tell you, I'll be glad when he's
got his Apparition test."

<snip>

(page 68)
"Must be nearly time," said Mr. Weasley quickly . . . "Do you know whether
we're waiting for any more, Amos?"

"No, the Lovegoods have been there for a week already and the Fawcetts
couldn't get tickets," said Mr. Diggory. "There aren't any more of us in
the area, are there?"

The canon indicates that the Lovegoods live "walking distance" from the
Weasleys, or their name wouldn't have come up in the discussion. As the
Diggory's appear to have walked for a number of hours, it is difficult to
say just how much area "the area" encompasses, but it seems clear that this
would have been the Lovegoods' local Portkey had they not had to arrive at
the QWC so early (due to having cheap seats, as was already pointed out).
While they may or not live two streets away, I'd say there's good evidence
they don't live on the other side of Britain from one another. So, the
comment "live relatively close together" seems to be accurate.

Cheers!
Wendy