CHAPDISC: DH20, Xenophilius Lovegood

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 182893

Carol:

> He seems really to consider belief in the 
> unbelievable to be a kind of virtue. Luna 
> accepts his beliefs unquestioningly, but she 
> also accepts Harry's story before her father 
> prints it in the Quibbler, a sign that she's 
> starting to think on her own. I think that Luna 
> represents intuition and eccentric genius (I 
> certainly never expected her to be a gifted 
> painter). She doesn't accept the "good" side 
> because she's rebelling against anything or 
> because she's come to some reasoned conclusion.


houyhnhnm:

That's kind of what I was getting at.  I didn't 
put it very well.

Carol: 

> What popped into my mind was the black chimney from 
> the disused mill that stands like an ominous warning 
> finger over the town that Snape lives in 

houyhnhnm:

Maybe because you have a literary background?  I suppose 
it did strike an ominous note with me, too, but I didn't 
connect it to the factory smokestack.