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[vmonte]

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Maus wrote:

11) Luna is on a not always too interesting day trip:
 
"The classroom door opened. Harry, Ron and Hermione whipped around. 
Ginny walked in, looking curious, closely followed by Luna, who as 
usual looked *as though* she had drifted in accidentally." – [OotP]
 
"...and Hermione was attempting, in vain, to throw Millicent 
Bulstrode off her. Luna, however, stood limply by the side of her 
captor, gazing vaguely out of the window *as though* rather bored by 
the proceedings." – [OotP]
 
"...Neville jumped down, shaking; and Luna dismounted smoothly.
'Where do we go from here, then?' she asked Harry in a politely 
interested voice, *as though* this was all a rather interesting day-
trip." – [OotP]
 
Seems a bit doubtful. Luna could be a time traveller visiting from 
the future, she could be extremely old, she could be some kind of 
magical being, or she could be a visitor from another planet. The 
fact that she does not need to blink as much as normal humans and has 
slightly protruding eyes seems to suggest the last possibility. 
Personally I like to believe Luna is just a very odd little girl.  


vmonte responds:

What an interesting post!  Here are my impressions of Luna (much of 
this is from an old post of mine).
 
In OOTP the kids are first introduced to Luna. She is sitting on the 
train reading her father's newspaper. She is reading an article 
entitled: Secrets of the Ancient Runes Revealed. Perhaps this is a 
subject Luna excels at. 

Also, I think Luna may be able to see the future. I don't think she 
has completely mastered it, but the idea makes sense if you think 
about some of her behavior in OOTP. 

Examples: She raises the newspaper she is reading on the train 
moments before Neville's plant explodes over everyone. Everyone in 
the compartment is drenched in slime except for her. 

Also, there are many times throughout the book when things are 
happening and Luna appears to be bored. If she already knows what is 
going to happen--of course she is going to be bored. At the end of 
OOTP she has no fear during the fight. If she knew what was going to 
happen she knew that she would be fine, or knew how to avoid getting 
seriously hurt. 

She hasn't told anyone because she has knowledge that it would be 
better not to, hasn't needed to, knows the future is not fixed, 
doesn't want Voldemort to find out, and most importantly doesn't want 
to give the last two books away for JKR Rowling. 

Her reactions to Ron are over the top--more like hero worship--not 
like she has a love crush kind of thing. (Her responses to Ron are 
more like people have to Super Stars,famous people. She may know that 
Ron will be the hero in book 7. (Look at my earlier comments about 
Ron being the leader of the army against Voldemort.) 

Her father's newspaper, even though it is a tabloid, has a lot of 
truth in it. Harry reads some of the articles on the train ride. 
Mixed in with the sensational is some truth. Example: S. Black is 
innocent. Maybe Luna is supplying her dad with information but her 
dad is camouflaging it so that it cannot be traced to his daughter.


Maus, you may be right about Luna being some kind of magical being. 
Her large eyes and interesting taste in earings (the radishes) may 
mean that she is/was a house elf.  Your comment that she may be 
extremely old is also interesting.  Is she a transfigured adult? Or 
another metamorph? As far as her being a time traveler from the 
future -- that never crossed my mind? That would be very 
interesting... Did her mom work at the MoM? Wasn't she also good at 
charms, like Lily?