A Look At Luna Lovegood (longish)

[dan]

No: HPFGUIDX 84076

~Paula "Griff" Gaon

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?

dan

I've posted a while ago some speculations regarding the narrative 
function of Luna Lovegood - something about the way she relates to HP 
indicating to me that she is part of Rowling's "solution" for the 
problem of HP as fictional character and as a real person somewhere 
in Rowling's past. Now, before people accuse me of going all META 
here, it is evident to me that the relationship between the fictional 
muggle world (a hyperbolized RW, in a way), the WitchWizard World (a 
reflection of the RW with magic trappings) and the RW are becoming 
the real subject of the series. Perhaps Rowling has worked out, by 
now, the adolescent passion behind the literary passion of HP, which 
she now turns her focus to. If this is the case, then a character 
like LL provides release from Rowling's own Hermionean retentiveness, 
which she has alluded to. Potentially, as well, LL provides a way to 
get Potter out of the closet - which is mental, perhaps physical, and 
obviously emotional. In some ways, Potter's anger reflects the anger 
that an author might feel at the death of the literary reason d'etre 
of a book?!?! Possibly. But, if I am correct, then what makes Luna 
different is that she is almost entirely RW - strangely enough a 
character satisfying certain fan ficcy type impulses, one one hand, 
but completely modelled, or rather designed, as a real-life, real 
person.

I need to go on about this some time soon, to clarify these ideas for 
the group. I'm just so bloody busy with work.

dan