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Morrigan Anne (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} _morrigan_) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank, |
I always found it interesting that Luna was a character that JKR *hadn't* planned out from the start. She just came about organically (replacing, IIRC, a Weasley cousin who was supposed to be in book 4 and in Slytherin). And that the book where Luna was introduced was the book where Harry was really going through an emotional roller-coaster of trauma.
I know a lot of people complain about Crazy!Capslock!Harry! in OOtP, but come on. He watch someone be murdered in cold blood right in front of him, and then got tortured by the man who killed his parents. And he was just 14 years old. What 14 year old could really cope with all of that?
But Luna, because she had seen her own mother get killed right in front of her, could understand Harry on that level when no one else could. And she was the only one again able to reach him after what happened to Sirius.
JKR said the in this interview that after everything he'd been through Harry would, realistically, have needed extensive therapy. And I just always felt that Luna really was the only one who not only understood Harry on that level, but could deal with it and help him instinctively in the right ways in dealing with it all. (She was the one who knew he needed time to himself at the end of DH, and made a distraction so he could have some). And I think, in turn, Harry would have been able to ground her a bit more. Some people don't think he would have been able to put up with her spaciness, but IMO she was put into Ravenclaw for a reason. She may be whimsical, but she's not stupid. She just is able to think outside the box, and that's not a bad thing - she would sometimes just take it a bit more father out sometimes, hence just needing a bit more grounding which would come as she grew older. (And JKR pretty much confirmed happened after she grew up and left school anyway).
Sorry for all of this. But Luna is my second favorite character in the series (after Harry), and I've just always felt JKRs muse or subconscious or whatever was trying to tell her something in creating Luna, and making such emotional parallels between her and Harry in OOtP. She says Hermione went "wandering" during the writing of that book, but I have a feeling other characters probably did too, Harry being one of them. But in book six, everyone got yanked back to the set story she had for them when, IMO, she should have just been like "okay, let me just see where *they* take *me*" instead.
Hence why we got the obvious-but-still-very-underwritten Harry/Ginny hook-up.
I know a lot of people complain about Crazy!Capslock!Harry! in OOtP, but come on. He watch someone be murdered in cold blood right in front of him, and then got tortured by the man who killed his parents. And he was just 14 years old. What 14 year old could really cope with all of that?
But Luna, because she had seen her own mother get killed right in front of her, could understand Harry on that level when no one else could. And she was the only one again able to reach him after what happened to Sirius.
JKR said the in this interview that after everything he'd been through Harry would, realistically, have needed extensive therapy. And I just always felt that Luna really was the only one who not only understood Harry on that level, but could deal with it and help him instinctively in the right ways in dealing with it all. (She was the one who knew he needed time to himself at the end of DH, and made a distraction so he could have some). And I think, in turn, Harry would have been able to ground her a bit more. Some people don't think he would have been able to put up with her spaciness, but IMO she was put into Ravenclaw for a reason. She may be whimsical, but she's not stupid. She just is able to think outside the box, and that's not a bad thing - she would sometimes just take it a bit more father out sometimes, hence just needing a bit more grounding which would come as she grew older. (And JKR pretty much confirmed happened after she grew up and left school anyway).
Sorry for all of this. But Luna is my second favorite character in the series (after Harry), and I've just always felt JKRs muse or subconscious or whatever was trying to tell her something in creating Luna, and making such emotional parallels between her and Harry in OOtP. She says Hermione went "wandering" during the writing of that book, but I have a feeling other characters probably did too, Harry being one of them. But in book six, everyone got yanked back to the set story she had for them when, IMO, she should have just been like "okay, let me just see where *they* take *me*" instead.
Hence why we got the obvious-but-still-very-underwritten Harry/Ginny hook-up.
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