OoP Loose ends (was: Repercussions for Fred/George)

[urghiggi]

No: HPFGUIDX 82141


> > Jen wrote:
> > Any other repercussions that need a little explanation in Book 6?
> 
> Another Jen...
> Two things that we have discussed ad nauseum but I will be looking 
> for the play out, 1)How will Harry and Snape interact? Harry's always 
> had reasons to dislike Snape but the hatred coursing through him when 
> he sees Snape for the first time after Sirius'death, that reached a 
> whole new level. He's using Snape as a scapegoat, and while I'm 
> hoping he gets over it, I don't think it will be a neat and tidy 
> process. The other situation: Will Draco and the children of other 
> DE's be back? And if so, how can school possibly be conducted as per 
> normal?

And urghiggi chimed in:
And where WAS that Luna Lovegood on the Hogwarts Express back to 
London??? At first I thought this was irrelevant -- she is after all not one of the 
"official" Gryffindor group, I figured maybe she was just off with the 
Ravenclaws (though they obviously ostracize her). But the more I think about 
it the more it bugs me. She was in there slugging with our heros at the MoM, 
she was in the hospital wing hanging out while Ron & Hermione were 
recovering, she was having a soul-baring (and apparently pivotal) confab with 
HP near the end of the term -- and then, zip. Not in the compartment with the 
other 5 Raiders of the MoM, not in the hallway, not named among the DA 
crowd aiming hexes at Draco, Crabbe & Goyle. And it sort of bugged me that 
neither Harry nor anybody else in that compartment seemed to even wonder 
where she was. No wondering aloud; no idle internal questioning from Harry. 
Guess Luna's weirdness still marginalizes her, despite her great show of 
loyalty to the other 5 in that compartment, and Harry's nascent feelings of pity 
for her.

So where WAS she? Ridin' on a thestral back to London? Got excused early 
to go look for snorkacks with daddy in Sweden? No info whatsoever. And you 
know what -- that mention of Ginny in the compartment reading "The Quibbler" 
seems almost to have been put there on purpose as an echo of the trip TO 
Hogwarts at the beginning of the year, when it was of course Luna reading 
the Quibbler. It seems to have been inserted as a reminder of who was there 
before and isn't, now. Somebody's got some 'splainin to do....

Urghiggi, Chgo