Luna/Neville Re: was Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts/ som...

[susanmcgee48176]

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> Sandy:
> She had also changed the statement about Luna. In the interview 
Luna 
> was not married, in the live chat Luna was married to Whoever 
> Scamander.
> 
> Potioncat:
> In the interview I saw, she was asked if Luna and Neville got 
> together. She seemed surprised and said that was a good idea, or 
> something like that, but didn't indicate who they had married if 
> anyone. But I don't recall her saying that Luna hadn't married.
> 
> I tried to find a link for the Dateline interview that I think you 
> may be referring to. I have a link to the actual video of it----I 
> think. But I couldn't find a transcript.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that when possible, we post a link to the 
> interview being discussed, then paste that link into each reply so 
> that everyone can find the exact quotes.
> 
> Potioncat, who wasn't any good at cutting and pasting in 
> Kindergarten, and is just catching on to it in cyberspace.
>

Here's what I found. I don't think that Ms. Rowling's statements were 
terribly contradictary. Perhaps I'm wrong?

On her website it states:

"Rumor: 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."

Then the Blue Peter special interview

'Harry Potter: A Blue Peter Special.' Blue Peter (CBBC), July 20 2007.

QUESTION: During the course of the seven books you've written, have 
any of the characters developed in an unexpected way that has 
surprised even you, the creator of them?
JKR: "Ummmm ... sometimes characters misbehave a little bit, and want 
to do their own thing. But I think I know them very very well, so 
they've never really taken me by surprise. Except -- I can say this 
because it hasn't happened but there is speculation at one point on 
the internet that Neville and Luna would end up together (audience 
giggles). And I said, "No, that won't happen." But you know what, 
while writing Seven, I started to feel a bit of a pull between Luna 
and Neville in a way. I started to see how that could work, but it 
hasn't happened. That was an interesting thing. The moment I'd 
said, "Of course, they would never fancy each other," I go... I don't 
know... You know, I kind of see that."

Is this what you're basing your idea that she contradicted herself 
on? I believe her last sentence could be open to interpretation. I 
interpreted it to mean she could see how it might have happened.

If you wanted Neville and Luna to get together, you could imagine 
that they fancied each other and dated before they each married 
Hannah Abbott and Rolf.....

Then on July 30th, in the Bloomsbury interview, she states that Luna 
married Rolf Scamander later in life.

Then in "A Year in the Life" documentary she states that the couple 
had Lorcan and Lysander.

Susan McGee
(who also had trouble cutting and pasting, and is still having 
trouble).