The Lovegoods at the World Cup

[Larry]

No: HPFGUIDX 126594



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tinglinger" <tinglinger at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I believe that Luna is going to play a major role in the HBP.
> Her family name is first mentioned in Goblet of Fire as 
> attending the World Cup.
>  
> "No, the Lovegoods have been there for a week already and the
> Fawcetts couldn't get tickets," said Mr. Diggory.
> GOF US ed, pg. 73)
> 
> I was curious why the name was mentioned in Goblet of Fire, 
> when Luna was not formally introduced until OOP. After 
> rereading Chapters 8 and 9 of GOF, I realized that there
> were at least two purposes of introducing the Lovegood
> name in GOF.
> 
> First, it establishes that Luna and her dad are interested
> enough in Quidditch to be at the World Cup a week early.
> This established Luna's fascination with Quidditch in OOP.
> It also explains why she would go so far as to make funny
> and outrageous hats, which may or may not be used later.
> 
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<de-lurking for the first time, Howdy!>

I agree that Luna is going to be important somehow in books 6&7, I'm 
just not sure how. If she isn't going to be involved in the future, 
JKR sure did spend a lot of time introducing and developing her for 
just one book.

When I read the passage quoted above, I thought back to Mr. 
Weasley's comment about the wizards with the cheaper tickets having 
to arrive weeks early and interpreted that as the reason why the 
Lovegoods arrived early. Although, I also thought that with Luna's 
father being the editor of a large magazine they weren't exactly 
poor, so I would think they would have gotten better tickets. Unless 
since they are not exactly popular with the Ministry, they couldn't 
get any better tickets (esp since it is mentioned the Fawcetts 
could't even get tickets).

Larry