The Prophecy: Harry's interpretation and reaction

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 104727

Demetra:
I agree with you, Jen. I know many people have posted that they
think that Harry will be even more angry in Book 6, but I disagree.
I think that the conversation with Luna was the turning point for
Harry... 

vmonte responds:

I really like Luna's conversation with Harry at the end of OOTP. She 
says a lot.   

p863, U.S. version:

"They'll come back, they always do in the end.  It was just that I 
wanted to pack tonight.  Anyway...why aren't you at the feast?"

Harry shrugged.  "Just didn't feel like it."

"No," said Luna, observing him with those oddly misty, protuberant 
eyes.  "I don't suppose you do.  That man the Death Eaters killed was 
your godfather, wasn't he?  Ginny told me."

Harry nodded curtly, but found that for some reason he did not mind 
Luna talking about Sirius.  He had just remembered that she too could 
see thestrals.

"Have you..." he began.  "I mean, who...has anyone you've known ever 
died?

"Yes," said Luna simply, "my mother.  She was a quite extraordinary 
witch, you know, but she did like to experiment and one of her spells 
went rather badly wrong one day.  I was nine."

"I'm sorry," Harry mumbled.

"Yes, it was rather horrible," said Luna conversationally, "I still 
feel very sad about it sometimes.  But I've still got Dad. And 
anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it?"

"Er--isn't it?" said Harry uncertainly.

She shook her head in disbelief. "Oh, come on.  You heard them, just 
behind the veil, didn't you?"

"You mean..."

"In that room with the archway.  They were just lurking out of sight, 
that's all.  You heard them."

Luna seems to be a very spiritually oriented person--and Harry really 
needs a friend like her.  There are going to be more deaths in book 
6/7 and a little spirituality can go a long way to ease the pain.  
Luna's dialog is a metaphor for how Harry is always losing the people 
he loves. Telling Harry that he will someday see Sirius again was the 
right thing for her to say to make Harry feel better. She is very 
intuitive don't you think?  

Luna makes Harry feel better because she reminds him that if he is 
patient he will one day recover all of his lost possessions (loved 
ones).  

vivian