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Going to Slughorn's Party from HBP |
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Still Fighting by Aeryn |
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Summer at the Burrow by Rainmaker135 |
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Flights of Fancy, by Goldy. It is funny that such a mundane thing—visiting the graves of their dead parents—can bring them so close together. |
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Luna: "Would you like me to fix it for you? Personally, I think you look a bit more 'devil-may-care' this way, but it's up to you."
Harry: "Erm, have you ever fixed a nose before?" Luna: "No, but I've done several toes - and how different are they, really?" -- Half-Blood Prince (film) |
LUNA LOVEGOOD >> BIOGRAPHY
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Luna Lovegood Birthday: Unknown |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not much is known about the history of this quirky Ravenclaw. She resides with her father not far from the village of Ottery St. Catchpole, making her a close geographic neighbor of the Weasley family. When Luna was nine, she witnessed one of her talented mother's experimental spells go fatally wrong. This left Luna with the ability to see thestrals, mysterious winged horselike creatures invisible except to those who have seen death. It's hinted that some of Luna's oddness comes from her mother's death; she apparently took much better care of her appearance when her mother was still alive. At Hogwarts she was an outcast, her unusual appearance and beliefs, as well as her father being the editor of the oft-derided wizarding tabloid The Quibbler, often making her the brunt of cruel comments by her peers, many of whom called her "Loony." She apparently brushed them off and contented herself with being an outcast. She met Harry Potter on the train to Hogwarts at the beginning of her fourth year (Harry's fifth), and seemed to develop a quick fascination with him. She assured Harry, who had recently started seeing thestrals himself after witnessing the death of Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory the previous summer, that (contrary to popular public belief) he was not going crazy. She told him that she could see the thestrals too and that she believed his story that Voldemort had indeed returned to power, though at first this was not a great comfort to Harry. When Harry and his friends began a student group, Dumbledore's Army, devoted to secretly studying Defense Against the Dark Arts - to thwart their teacher, who was little better than a Ministry plant with no intention of teaching her students defensive magic - Luna joined and was a regularly attending member. Later in the year Harry's friend Hermione Granger had a plan to stop the widespread idea that Harry's story about Voldemort's return meant he was crazy - a tell-all interview about the night Harry witnessed Voldemort return. Luna played a key part in this plan, agreeing to help the interview get published in her father's newspaper, since the official wizarding media had already declared Harry insane. Indeed this interview did a great deal to help restore Harry's image, and proved to be one of the most popular issues of The Quibbler yet, earning the Lovegoods the money to plan a summer expedition to search for Crumple-Horned Snorkacks in Sweden. When Harry decided to charge off to the Ministry of Magic when he believed Voldemort was holding his godfather Sirius Black captive there, Luna was one of five students who insisted on accompanying him, and the only one who wasn't already an acknowledged friend of Harry's. She proved to be one of the most able fighters among them, lasting longer against Voldemort's Death Eaters - until she was knocked out - than any except Neville Longbottom and Harry himself. At the end of the year Luna sealed her place among Harry's friends and fulfilled perhaps her most important help to him in the aftermath of Sirius' death. Harry was unable and unwilling to confide even in his closest friends the pain he felt, but because of Luna's own experience with the death of a loved one, he was able to confide in her, as well as receive a small reassurance that he would be reunited with Sirius again someday. Luna's friendship with Harry continued into her fifth year, his sixth - much to Luna's surprise, having expected Harry to want to hang out with someone "cooler" (which he assured her she certainly was). He even spontaneously asked her to go to a professor's Christmas party with him, an outing both apparently enjoyed, at least in terms of each other's company. She had a brief but memorable stint as the commentator for Hogwarts' Quidditch matches, her extremely off-color commentary endearing her even to the skeptical Ron Weasley (though not the strict Professor McGonagall). When Hogwarts was invaded by Death Eaters at the end of the year, Luna was one of only two members of the now-defunct Dumbledore's Army to respond to Harry's call to arms, an act which only increased the affection Harry felt toward her (and the other DA member, Neville Longbottom). That following summer Luna and her father were guests at the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, which was interrupted by a Death Eater attack during whicih Harry went into hiding to prepare for his final confrontation with Voldemort. As Voldemort's control of the Ministry continued to grow, Luna and her father continued to be some of Harry's strongest advocates. At Hogwarts, which was now under the control of Severus Snape and other Death Eaters, Luna, Neville, and Ginny Weasley co-resurrected the Dumbledore's Army movement. The three even staged an ill-fated attempt to steal the sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office. Luna's father, as editor/publisher of The Quibbler, was one of the few voices that dared speak up in support of Harry - until Luna was kidnapped by Death Eaters, who wanted Xeno's cooperation in capturing Harry in exchange for his daughter's life. When the Death Eaters failed to capture Harry at the Lovegood house, it's believed that Xeno was imprisoned in Azkaban. Luna herself was being held with several other Harry supporters at Malfoy Manor, until Harry, Ron, and Hermione were themselves captured there. The group later coordinated a daring escape, after which the surviving Malfoy Manor captives sought refuge for several weeks at Bill and Fleur's cottage. After the Trio continued on their quest for the remaining Horcruxes, Luna returned to the Dumbledore's Army movement at Hogwarts. When Harry returned there before Voldemort's arrival, Luna was crucial in Harry's discovery of the Ravenclaw Horcrux. Luna fought bravely in the final Battle of Hogwarts. At one point she and two other students helped save Harry from a Dementor attack, and she managed to get a downtrodden Harry to conjure his Patronus. She duelled Voldemort's lieutenant Bellatrix Lestrange alongside Hermione and Ginny, before Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix. The last we see of Luna - who at this point has been acknowledged in Harry's mind as among those he considers loved ones - in the books is a scene in the Great Hall with Harry, where she provides Harry a much-needed moment of distraction from the post-war mania. According to interview statements made by J.K. Rowling - which can be taken as canon or not - after Hogwarts Luna went on to become one of the wizarding world's premiere naturalists. She apparently married Rolf Scamander, the son of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them author Newt Scamander, and had twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander. Even though in canon Harry and Luna both end up marrying other people, their bond is still apparently very important to one another long after the war: according to another Rowling statement, Harry and Ginny's daughter's name is "Lily Luna." -- |
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