Coolness // Portraits

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182816


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> Montavilla47:
> 
> I agree with you, Catlady, but I must say that I felt the sermonette got
> watered down because it was Romilda judging Luna and Neville as 
> uncool, and Romilda seemed to have absolutely no "cool" cred.
> 
> As I recall, she was in second or third year, unattractive, and annoying.
> Unless we were supposed to see Luna and Neville as such hopeless
> losers* that kids three or fourth years younger could look
> down on them, I don't see that there was any reason for Harry to 
> ditch them, even if they hadn't fought in the MoM.

Pippin:
The point is not that Harry is so noble that he won't ditch his uncool friends in order to 
hang with cooler strangers. The point is that Harry has changed his idea of what's cool 
*and* no longer cares whether Neville and Luna are supposed to be cool, although he 
thinks they are.

Romilda, a fourth year, points up the immaturity of Harry's previous behavior -- it was, of 
course, vain.

Pippin
thinking that vanity is a major theme of HBP, and that Romilda was indeed vain and silly 
not to recognize that Neville and Luna were cool even by her unenlightened standards.