A Look At Luna Lovegood (longish)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 84050

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Paula Gaon 
<paulag5777 at y...> wrote:
> 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?  
<snip>
 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?
>

This has been posted before, but could she be a werewolf? 
 Her name, like Lupin's, is suggestive. Remember Peeves's 
jingle, "Loony loopy Lupin" ? Werewolves are apparently strongly 
resistant to magic, since FBAWTFT lists them as known wizard 
killers.

Pippin