A Look At Luna Lovegood (longish)

[Paula Gaon]

No: HPFGUIDX 84043

3Nov03 
Ever since my second read of OotP and subsequent rereading of a few chapters, can't stop thinking about Luna Lovegood.  Exactly who/what is she?  When we first meet Luna on the train going to Hogwarts, she's described as having "waist-length, dirty blond hair (not sure if dirty refers to the condition of her hair or the color, I think it's probably the condition due to her spacy character), very pale eyebrows and protuberant eyes..."  Of course we get a glimpse of her strange taste in accessories as well as her distant dotty character.  Now the first thing I thought about after reviewing this description was Veela, at least part Veela-- pale coloring, aloof manner.  Later we learn that Luna's father is editor of the "Quibbler", the alternate wizarding newspaper and believes, as does Luna,  in all sorts of strange animals that not many others do.  Why would the family believe in such?  Could they have actually lived among such strange beings and are just trying to inform the rest of
 the wizarding world?  Then, when it came to riding the Thestrals, she hopped on side saddle.  Why would she need to ride side-saddle?    But the quote that really raises a red flag: "Luna was already in place, sitting side-saddle, and adjusting her robes as though she did this every day."  Doesn't she seem just a little too familiar with the art of Thestral riding?  Even Ron and Neville of old wizarding families don't know what to make of Thestrals.  I mean really, where's this girl from?   OK, now on to the Department of Mysteries, in front of the veil.  When Harry asks if anyone else hears the whispering, Luna is the only one who claims to hear something.  She says, "there are people in there." , Hermione vehemently objecting to the term in there.  Could this be a hint that Luna knows something about the nature of the Department of Mysteries that we've yet to discover?  Then, after all the action fighting the Death Eaters, we aren't told which spell hit Luna, but are told that 
 she "went flying throught the air,...hit a desk, slid over it's surface and onto the floor, and on the other side where she lay sprawled , as still as Hermione."  Sounds pretty serious, but Hermione landed in the hospital wing as a patient, Luna didn't.  This fact is casually revealed when we're informed that Luna dropped in to visit.  (Bloomsbury Ed. page 746)  IMHO, Luna is some order of being, or combination, not totally human.  I see her decision to join forces with H/R/H, the only non-Gryffindor, as a foreshadowing to the subsequent revelation of an entire new "ethnic group" in the WW that we so far haven't met.  Anybody pick up any hints in canon, or have ideas?
 
~Paula "Griff" Gaon
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