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

[templar1112002]

No: HPFGUIDX 128583

I'm sorry, but I believe you've misunderstood my post.

I was just saying that Luna's character was intensely more developed 
than Cho's or Viktor's, for it to support the conjectures those 
other posters were about: tha Luna was supposed/expected to be a 
passing romance for Ron.  
I wasn't pointing to a R/L ship.  There is L->R in canon, but Ron 
has not shown any interest in her.

Since you brought up H/L ship, it's my thinking that JKR's comment 
on the Neville/Luna ship can easily apply to H/L, too.

>From the JKR's Site, Rumours section:

"...Luna and Neville will hook up in HP&THBP

The Luna/Neville shippers are much less vehement and scary than the 
Harry/Hermione, Ron/Hermione tribes, so I hope I won't receive too 
much hate mail for quashing this rumour. I see Neville and Luna as 
very different kinds of people and while they share a certain 
isolation within Hogwarts, I don't think that's enough to foster 
true love - friendship, perhaps, although I think that Neville would 
always find Luna's wilder flights of fancy alarming. ..."

Harry has always thought that Luna's 'flights of fancy' were 
alarming, and he's felt pity for her.  
Besides, there's no canon evidence of Luna->Harry or Harry->Luna.

Marcela

 

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tinglinger" <tinglinger at y...> 
wrote:
> Marcela
> <snips>
> 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
> 
> http:/groups.yahoo.com/group/potterplots