Is Luna meant to be a passing romance for Ron? or for Harry?

[tinglinger]

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Marcela
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For Luna Lovegood to be a 'test drive' for Ron, she's quite 
well developed.<snip> with Luna, we already know that

1. her mom passed away in front of her in a tragic accident,
2. her dad is the editor of the Quibbler,
3. she lives close to Ron's home,
4. she's Ginny's friend,
5. she's crushing on Ron, 
6. she's spacey but smart,
7. she doesn't care what people think of her, and 
8. won't remain silent if she wants her opinion be heard.
9. And showed bravery in the face of danger,and
10. loyalty to her friends.
That's quite a lot of character development for just a fleeting first
romance with Ron...


tinglinger
Sounds more like a romance with Harry to me.
Point by point - 
1. hmmm, who else's mom died in front of a child?
2. Harry benefited from that more than anyone
3. Not grounds for a ship
4. I am not so sure about the friend part. Ginny seems to try
to share a private joke with Harry at Luna's expense each time
the three (or more) of them meet
5. I am not so sure Luna knows what a crush means. She may not
be as ditsy as some here make her out to be, but I dont see a
relationship developiong - at least not on Ron's part
6. She is a ravenclaw after all, and we dont know whether she
is spacy for a reason 
7. Neither is Harry - Ron on the other hand cares a great deal
what people think about him. 
8. So is Hermione and Ron's alleged ship with her hasn't blossomed 
at all
9. Interestingly enough, she also showed CLARITY OF THOUGHT at that
time - indicating that she is not as ditsy as she seems, and when 
she HAS to be clear, like in battle, she is.
10. What friends are those? I would like to see an example of a
friend outside of rooting for a quidditch team.

My key argument against a Ron/Luna ship is that JKR will have to waste
far too many pages to make RL believable, whereas all the pieces are
almost in place too make an albeit temporary Harry/Luna ship far
easier to explain.
Point by point again -
1. If Luna's mom died trying to cure luna from something, then Luna
has a lot more in common with Harry than Ron ever will. 
2.If her dad is killed by Voldemort or Goyle in retaliation for
publishing the original Quibbler interview with Harry theen they are
both orphans and, besides the common ground they already have, they 
have great reasons to go back to the MoM and the veil again. Ron Ginny
and Hermione, who is terrified of the veil, all have
parents and havent suffered a loss. Why would they go back there? Was
the veil for nought?
3. If her dad is killed then she can end up on the front lawn of
privet drive riding on a thestral much more easily than going to the
burrow. Harry has offered to help her TWICE - Ron barely knows who she
is.... If she needs help she will go to Harry first. If you disagree,
I would love to hear the arguments for this point.
4,5 The Weasley connection needs a lot more fleshing out at the cost
of a lot of pages best used elsewhere. We already have the Harry
connection.
6.Wonder if she will still be spacy after her dad dies -- i think that
the spaciness enables her to cope with the loss of her mom.
7,8,9,10 still needs development to be plausible with Ron.

So..... the Harry/Luna plot is FAR more along than Ron/Luna. Can JKR
afford to spend more time developing a new distracting plot line when 
a perfectly fine one exists already?

as with everything potterish these days we wont have long to wait.

tinglinger
who has many theories and character studies including a complete
analysis of the Harry/Luna scene that got Harry off the bottom 
of his downward spiral and what that scene portends for HBP

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