Luna's Name (was: Re: Pippin, you've done it again!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 82834

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:

I probably should not be responding as I never read the LWH book, but 
I am sure that even if JKR's writing or characters were influenced by 
books she read and loved, she is not going to take plot lines from 
other books as such, she is creative enough to make do without it.

> ???  So is Luna beneath Harry in your view, or is Harry beneath 
Luna, as per
> _The Little White Horse?_  (And, before you respond, get your 
collective
> minds OUT of the gutter!)

I noticed that too - to match the LWH book, Harry needs to 
be "beneath" Luna, but (unless you mean in the pure blood sense) he 
is not.

> Financially, Harry's apparently quite wealthy.  We don't know how 
well-off
> or otherwise Mr. Lovegood is.

There are hints that the Lovegoods are not very well off. In GoF Amos 
Diggory mentions that the cheapest tickets require the longest 
arrival time ahead of the QWC and the Lovegoods have already been 
there two weeks. The Crumple Horn Snoracks (I may be spelling that 
one wrong :-)) are a complete obsession of Luna and her father, but 
they can't afford to go look for them until they sell Harry's 
interview to the Daily Prophet.

> Heightwise---Harry's described, usually, as short and slight for 
his age.  I
> don't remember anybody commenting on Luna's height one way or 
t'other.

In the beginning of OoP Harry is described as unhealthy looking due 
to "growing a lot in a short space of time". Then he muses that he's 
within an inch of his same-age father in the pensieve incident. James 
Potter the adult has always been described as "tall". I don't think 
that Harry is tall yet (certainly nowhere near Ron's height), but he 
is no longer short.

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