Luna Lovegood

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 91017

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wmkgourlay" 
> <elizabethhadzic at h...> wrote:
> 
> >> In the end, Luna will be important as she was in OoP.  She 
> will help  Harry through some tough times and maybe teach 
> Hermoine to be more  open-minded.<<

Pippin:
> She also stands to Harry a bit as he stands to Ron and 
> Hermione.  Harry's never sure how much of the weird stuff 
> Luna's telling him he ought to believe, but it must be much the 
> same for Ron and Hermione vis a vis all the things Harry tells 
> them. It's going to be even harder for Hermione now, knowing 
> that she was right to doubt Harry's vision of Sirius at the 
Ministry.

Jen: That's true about Hermione, although she had her own revelation 
after discovering the prophecy room in the MOM. That experience, and 
the knowledge that Harry's own life is tied up with a prophecy, 
might help Hermione see a few more possibilities (besides getting 
everything from a book). She just needed it couched in terms she can 
understand; finding out actual *research* was taking place on 
prophecies made intuition palatable! 

As for Luna, I'm wondering if she will have an eye-opening 
experience as well, something that will shake the foundation of her 
beliefs. Luna is also single-minded, but in a completely different 
way. Her ability to exclude factual information is equal to 
Hermione's ability to discount everything she can't see/hear/touch. 
Both have an opportunity to see another person's perspective if they 
look at each other closely, but will they?

Jen