Luna and the Veil

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 159847

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rsmrymurrell"
<rosemary.murrell at ...> wrote:
>
> Just found this group and somewhat astounded! But here is a
> thought: IF Dumbledore is dead and we subscribe to the theory
> that the dead are 'just beyond the curtain' is it likely that,
> for example, Luna, might be contacted by Dumbledore to help
> Harry. Just a thought, will have to read all the previous
> messages! Chocolate frogs to everyone!
> 
> Rosemary
>
Carol responds:
That's an interesting idea. Luna hears voices behind the Veil and
believes that she'll rejoin her dead mother some day. She must be
connected in some way with the archway, our key to understanding it.
Apparently, the archway with the veil was never an execution chamber,
as I once thought (JKR has vetoed that idea) but there's an
amphitheater around it, *as if* it had once been used for human
sacrifice. Evidently, something can happen there, some interaction
that can be watched and studied by the Unspeakables who work in the
Death Chamber in the DoM. (Luna's future career if she survives?)

Luna is unusual in other ways, as well. She can see thestrals, of
course, but that's explained by her mother's death when she was nine.
She's eccentric (like Trelawney) and she gets along well with
Trelawney, who's disappointed that Luna isn't in her class in HBP
(she's taking Divination with Firenze). She seems to me the antithesis
of Hermione, who depends on reference books and facts to find what she
considers to be the truth. Luna (like her father) apparently depends
on intuition but she's not devoid of common sense. It was her idea to
ride the Thestrals to the MoM. (Who'd ride one sidesaddle, though? ;-)
) And she has silvery eyes like Mr. Ollivander's, which perhaps see
things that others can't see. (Mr. O. must be a Legilimens since he
suspects that Hagrid has kept his broken wand. Maybe Ollivander and
Luna are related?)

Carol, wondering if Luna is a true Seer or will at least help Harry to
see his situation from a new perspective