A Look At Luna Lovegood (longish)

[Granny Goodwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 84135

5November2003 
 
Dan wrote:
 ...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...
 
Granny responds:
Humm...  This sounds a little over-analytical to me.  Wouldn't any work of fiction be the author's perception of the relationship between a fictional world and the real world?  This is the real beauty and value of fictional literature.  A reader enters the authors world and draws parallels in his own.
 
Dan:
Potter's anger reflects the anger that an author might feel at the death of the literary reason d'etre 
of a book?!?! 
 
Granny:
Sorry, can't agree here. Seems to me that Potter's anger clearly comes from his feelings of being kept in the dark.  His anger is clearly within the framework of the story.  What would his anger have to do with the literary raison d'etre?
 
Dan:
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 modeled, or rather designed, as a real-life, real person.
 
Granny:
Luna, RW.  OK, I can see your point.  There is always a spicy distracted type in every crowd.  But the fact that she went through the entire ordeal of battling with the DE's in the Department of Mysteries along with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville and was the only one that came out without so much as a scratch is significant in wizarding terms.
 
Granny Goodwitch




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