Luna Lovegood

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 102084

June wrote:
She has her quirks, and some of them aren't so little, but when you
strip all that away for a minute, you find a very brave girl,who, if 
given the chance, would probably be one of the most loyal and 
trustworthy friends one could have.  June


vmonte responds:

I found this post on another website and I thought it was interesting.
It's about the conversation between Luna and Harry at the end of OOTP.

____________by snuggle the muggle:__________________________________ 
When I read that scene at the end of the book where Luna is talking 
to Harry about her possessions missing I thought that something else 
must be going on in that part. After all, JKR does not just put these 
little things in for the heck of it. She wants to tell us something. 
I thought at first that it was just for Harry to stop focusing so 
much on Sirius' death and focus more on someone else's problems, 
which could certainly be some part of it . . . "

But last night, it suddenly dawned on me what I think that JKR is 
trying to say. I think that Luna's words, "People keep taking my 
things" and her not knowing where they go could be symbolic of Harry 
losing all his "things," all the people that he loves and not knowing 
why. But then, in what I think now is a very poignant foreshadowing 
of what is coming, she says "But they always come back in the end. I 
think I'll just go have a pudding and wait for them." I think she 
might be saying there, and Rowling is saying there, "Things that are 
lost can be regained. You can find them again. You just need to be 
patient." 

I found that message to be very encouraging to Harry. And I think 
that is why the "tight knot" that had been present in his stomach 
started to loosen. Maybe subconsciously he got that message. 

Anyway, I now find that part of the book to be very important to the 
whole story. Do any of you find other meanings in this scene?
____________snuggle the muggle_____________________________________