OOP: Luna! The new Hermione??

[adellalaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 66216

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brooke" <brookeshanks at m...> 
wrote:
> In the first four books I always felt like Hermione was JKR's 
> surrogate character in most situations. Now, after reading OOP, I 
> see some very interesting things about Luna that make me think 
that 
> JKR may be transferring herself vicariously from Hermione to Luna. 
> (For all you shippers... this could make for some interesting 
changes 
> in opinion if it is at all true :o) 
> IMHO, Luna's attitute seems to sort of transcend the petty, 
surface 
> behavioral tendancies of her peers. She is quite straightforward, 
> she's above taunting others, she takes others' teasing of her with 
a 
> grain of salt, and many of her comments sound to me like the 
> omniscient voice of wisdom. It's as if she is a Dumbledore in the 
> making - the character with whom the author uses to introduce new 
> thought provoking themes into the story.
> One big reason I was led to thinking this was the death of JKR's 
> mother. She died of MS while JKR was writing one of the books (but 
I 
> forget which one now). The comments that Luna makes about losing 
her 
> mother were to me, chillingly insightful. I think maybe JKR may be 
> re-entering the story with Luna now acting as her surrogate, 
rather 
> than Hermione who is definitely taking on her own unique 
> personality. Did anyone else think this about Luna as well?
> 
> Brooke


Yes, I definetly wondered if there was more to Luna. Although Luna's 
various death insights could be a bit of J.K.'s own wisdom, I don't 
think she's taken over Hermione. For one, in a interview a while 
back (I don't remember which...) J.K. said that if she could be an 
animagi she would be an otter....which was Hermione's patronus.