Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

[sgwood01]

No: HPFGUIDX 136510

Hi, new member here - somewhat surprised to find myself so obsessed 
with The Half Blood Prince.

Racheal wrote:

> So I definitely think that the fifth horcrux is something of 
> Ravenclaw's, which goes along with something JKR said which was 
along 
> the lines of "Ravenclaw will have it's day in the next book".
> 
> who thinks that one of the horcruxes is hidden in the Room of 
> Requirement and can be found when you're desperately looking for a 
> place to hide something.

I agree that one of the horcruxes will be something belonging to 
Ravenclaw, for reasons of symmetry as much as anything else.

Having arrived at that point, I found myself speculating about Luna 
Lovegood. Although Luna has played a role in earlier books, no real 
explanation has been supplied to explain why she is in Ravenclaw. 
That seems to me to be a loose end. (Contrast this with Neville, who 
has acted bravely on a number of occasions even though at first he 
seems an unlikely Gryffindor.) Is the reason she is a Ravenclaw (or 
had to be in terms of the plot) yet to be revealed? 

Then there is the matter of Luna's possessions going missing at the 
end of Order of the Phoenix.We don't know who took her possessions, 
what was missing or how she got them back. Is there any chance that 
Luna has something of Ravenclaws, perhaps acquired on one of her 
jaunts with her Dad, and that this object was either lost or stolen 
from her and ended up in the Room of Requirement?

Sue W
(in Oz)