Luna's Creepy Father-- Was: Predictions for the End

[guzuguzu]

No: HPFGUIDX 174269

Betsy Hp wrote:

> Luna's father was *creepy*! I thought he'd killed her and mummified
> her remains during that tea scene.

guzu: 

I was extremely disturbed by the portrayal of Luna's father, who, from
what we heard about him in OotP and HBP, seemed to be comically wacky.
Instead, we find that besides being a cowardly traitor (trying to sell
Harry and co. to the DEs) he is dangerously delusional (the exploding
horn). I found the latter particularly disgusting given that we
learned in OotP that Luna's mother accidentally killed herself during
an experiment. I wonder if Mr. Lovegood had anything to do with that?
Seeing as how he had been planning to give the horn to Luna as a gift,
it seems the DEs actually saved her from severe injury or death by
kidnapping her. I'm not sure what J.K. Rowling's intent was in writing
him to be as nasty as he was, other than to make us feel even more
sorry for Luna.