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Currently taken from the Tail End of Book 7, while Luna Lovegood and various others are at Shell Cottage. To be updated occasionally as I move through the end of the book!
History: *Luna born to Xenophilius Lovegood and his wife. Xenophilius publishes the Quibbler, a wizarding tabloid. We don't know much about Luna's mother, except the next important tidbit:
*Luna's mother dies in a spell accident. Luna witnesses it. She is 9. Enables Luna to see thestrals.
*Goes to Hogwarts at age 11, like everyone else. She is sorted into Ravenclaw.
*Remains really, really odd. Students steal her things. Picks up nickname "Loony Lovegood". Doesn't appear to bothered by these two facts. Still, she remains friendless until year 4.
*Year 4 is a big one:
- Meets Harry Potter and his friends on the train. They share a compartment. They think she's odd, to say the least. When asked by Harry, claims she can see the thestrals, too. He isn't reassured.
- Stands up for Harry's take on the return of Voldemort.
- Joins Dumbledore's Army, aka DA. Magic skills go up.
- Passes Harry Potter's interview with Rita Skeeter onto her father. Her father publishes it in the Quibbler. The issue sells out. Repeatedly.
- Joins Harry and his friends' quest to save Sirius Black from the Department of Mysteries, where Harry thinks the former is being held by Voldemort. Luna suggests taking thestrals to London, and the group goes with her idea. She also hears voices from behind the Veil. Death Eaters show up. A battle ensues. Things go rather badly from there on.
-Talks to Harry after Sirius Black's death. Reveals that people hide her things. Refuses his help in finding said things. Talks about the voices behind the Veil.
-Year 4 ends.
*Goes to Sweden with her father during the summer, using the profits from *the* Quibbler issue.
*At some point between Year 4 and Year 6, paints huge mural on her ceiling. Contains: Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and herself entwined with the word "friends".
* Year 5 Begins.
- Finds out DA isn't being continued. Disappointed by this.
- Comforts Hermione around Christmas over Ron being an idiot.
- Asked out by Harry to Slughorn's Christmas Party, as a friend.
- Makes friends with Sanguini, a Vampire. Talks with Trelawney. Discusses Rotfang conspiracy.
- Substitutes for Zacharias Smith for Quidditch Commentary. Very amusing.
- At some point in here, takes her OWLs. Her scores are not reported.
- Participates in the Battle at the Astronomy tower with the former DA, meaning Neville, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione. Luna receives no major injuries, along with the rest of the group, due to Harry's Felix Felicis.
- Year 5 ends.
* Attends Bill and Fleur's Wedding at the Burrow. Sees through Harry's Polyjuiced appearance.
* Year 6 begins. Hogwarts taken over by Death Eaters. Not happy times.
- Attempts to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword with Ginny and Neville. Caught by Snape. Given detention in Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.
- Reforms the DA with Ginny and Neville. Sabotage ensues. Trying to help Harry destroy Horcruxes ensues.
- Captured by Death Eaters on way home for Christmas Holidays in order to force her father to stop supporting Harry in the Quibbler.
- Kept in Malfoy Manor with Mr. Ollivander. Becomes his friend and comforts him during this time.
- Over Easter, Harry and company free everyone. Dobby helps. Dobby dies doing so. Luna closes his eyes and provides the Eulogy later.
- From the rescue until the Final Battle, Luna stays at Shell Cottage along with a few other people. Receives new wand from Mr. Ollivander.
- Final Battle. Luna lets Harry et al into the Ravenclaw Common Room to help find horcruxes. Stuns Carrow, a Death Eater, and witnesses Snape getting banished. Joins official battle. Helps Harry and company repel dementors. When it's all over, creates a diversion so Harry can escape the crowds.
- Year 6 ends. All is well.
Personality: Luna lives on a different plane of existence than most people, and only occasionally do her feet touch ground. She is a permanent resident of cloud cuckooland. She believes in anything that crosses her path. Crumple Horned Snorkacks? Check. Conspiracy theories involving the Ministry of Magic and heliopaths? Check. Anything from magical creatures who are only rumored to exist to gigantic conspiracy theories, Luna will buy into it before breakfast. The less sense it makes, the better. Although there's an art to Luna's strange fascinations and off-the-wall opinions. Almost everything she believes in has a grain of truth to it, only expanded to the point that only she can follow the logic in it. For example, Sirius Black is most certainly not Stubby Boardman, but he is innocent of his crimes as her father's paper proclaims. The Ministry of Magic doesn't have heliopaths, but they are complacent at best when Voldemort comes back. There aren't Crumple Horned Snorkacks, but there are more things in heaven and Earth than dreamt of in philosophies, so Luna believes in all of it.
Luna is surprisingly emotionally mature. Her things often get stolen, but she says she doesn't mind and that they always turn up again. Still, it's clear that Harry and company are her first and only friends, and even then they don't often treat her well. She doesn't seem to mind that, either. Even so, she understands and perceives more than it appears at first glance. She's capable of seeing through Harry's polyjuiced appearance because of the expression on his face. She knows that people call her "Loony Lovegood", but as mentioned above, she doesn't seem to mind. She knows that people think she's crazy, but she doesn't change her behavior to fit in at all. She wears necklaces made of butterbeer caps, earrings shaped like radishes, and gigantic lion hats no matter what. As anyone who's been through high school knows, it takes a certain amount of emotional fortitude to willingly stand out of the crowd. Luna persists in doing so, which demonstrates that she's made of slightly stronger stuff. This pays off in spades, because when she shifts the focus of her steady belief from odd creatures to normal people, loyalty ensues.
She's honest in a way that makes people uncomfortable. There's a bluntness when she talks about her lack of friends or her father's paper or the weird things she believes. Still, she remains calm almost always, even during battles and escape attempts. She's often seen comforting other characters, or else creating diversions for them. The only time she isn't being notably serene is when Hermione insults the Quibbler, and even then she goes right back to daydreaming afterward. There's certain degree of wisdom to her character, which is a little different than Hermione's logic even at the best times. This is best exemplified by her belief that she'll see her mother again. She understands complicated things and boils them down into simple things, via her characteristic bluntness. It's also worth mentioning that she's a Ravenclaw, meaning she's fair and intelligent. Considering the Ravenclaw password in the books, this means that she must be very good at riddles. A wit, if you will. Also, considering her father's knowledge of legends and stories, it wouldn't be too shocking if she knew some of them, too.
Other: Her patronus is a hare.
Additional Links: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Luna_Lovegood
First Person (entry type): You all have very nice handwriting. Especially whoever has the dark green script. The person with the blue slanted kind, too. One of you writes very darkly, though. It keeps leaving deep marks in the page that won't come out. Does anyone know how to get it out? I already tried using a wharlbird, but it didn't know what to do and flew away. I thought it might've worked too, because you're ducks. It says so at the top of the page. I never knew about the DramaDrama kind. You can write on parchment that doesn't belong to you, with different writing every time.
I thought I'd try writing back. Is it working? What do you see?
Third Person:
When Luna was ten years old, her father told her about Snipes. They were gigantic birds, larger than ostriches. He said they had beautiful feathers, and she thought of them looking like lollipops. The swirled kind the size of her head. She'd seen muggles eat them. They looked like every color, spun around and around and around, like a pinwheel. Like the feathers on Snipes, which her father told her about. They couldn't be found anywhere any more. Not here, not over there, not in a maze or in a forest or in a jungle or in a desert. Which, when Luna was ten, didn't make much sense, because how could something be somewhere, but not anywhere at all? Of course, that was before she learned about the Wrackspurts. Invisible hidden things. They flew in through your brain and made everything go fuzzy. They struck during parties. Flew in while people were talking with their friends. They struck during exams and made her forget everything she studied before. They were invisible to the eye. Like the Snipes her father told her about when she was ten.
But she remembered reading a story once, when she thought about the Snipes and Wrackspurts. It was a muggle story. There was a fox in it. No Snipes, though. But there was a rose, and a fox, and a desert. And asteroids, she remembered the asteroids. Where people lived, small people, which made her wonder how many wonderful things there could be up there, in the sky, in space, where nobody could see them. But she remembers the fox, who was talking to a boy. He had a cape. And the fox said, because the fox was very wise and said such things, that It Is Only With the Heart That One Can See Rightly; What Is Essential Is Invisible To the Eye. Only in French. And Luna was very young then, having not heard about Snipes or Snorkacks or Wrackspurts yet. But when she grew up, when her mother died, when her father taught her about Snipes, she remembered what the Fox said. Only in English this time.
Her father told her about Snipes, and how people would try to send her to find them when they thought she was crazy. Which didn't make sense, because Luna wasn't crazy so why would people think that about her? But her father told her that Snipes were what people sent you to find when they didn't know what to do with you. When they wanted you to go away for awhile. When they didn't believe you. When they didn't have Spectrespecs and couldn't see Wrackspurts. Even though they were there. And Luna thought about the fox from a story she read once upon a time. About invisible things. About visible things. And she thought that maybe there were Snipes after all, and that other people couldn't see them. They were looking with their eyes, after all.
History: *Luna born to Xenophilius Lovegood and his wife. Xenophilius publishes the Quibbler, a wizarding tabloid. We don't know much about Luna's mother, except the next important tidbit:
*Luna's mother dies in a spell accident. Luna witnesses it. She is 9. Enables Luna to see thestrals.
*Goes to Hogwarts at age 11, like everyone else. She is sorted into Ravenclaw.
*Remains really, really odd. Students steal her things. Picks up nickname "Loony Lovegood". Doesn't appear to bothered by these two facts. Still, she remains friendless until year 4.
*Year 4 is a big one:
- Meets Harry Potter and his friends on the train. They share a compartment. They think she's odd, to say the least. When asked by Harry, claims she can see the thestrals, too. He isn't reassured.
- Stands up for Harry's take on the return of Voldemort.
- Joins Dumbledore's Army, aka DA. Magic skills go up.
- Passes Harry Potter's interview with Rita Skeeter onto her father. Her father publishes it in the Quibbler. The issue sells out. Repeatedly.
- Joins Harry and his friends' quest to save Sirius Black from the Department of Mysteries, where Harry thinks the former is being held by Voldemort. Luna suggests taking thestrals to London, and the group goes with her idea. She also hears voices from behind the Veil. Death Eaters show up. A battle ensues. Things go rather badly from there on.
-Talks to Harry after Sirius Black's death. Reveals that people hide her things. Refuses his help in finding said things. Talks about the voices behind the Veil.
-Year 4 ends.
*Goes to Sweden with her father during the summer, using the profits from *the* Quibbler issue.
*At some point between Year 4 and Year 6, paints huge mural on her ceiling. Contains: Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and herself entwined with the word "friends".
* Year 5 Begins.
- Finds out DA isn't being continued. Disappointed by this.
- Comforts Hermione around Christmas over Ron being an idiot.
- Asked out by Harry to Slughorn's Christmas Party, as a friend.
- Makes friends with Sanguini, a Vampire. Talks with Trelawney. Discusses Rotfang conspiracy.
- Substitutes for Zacharias Smith for Quidditch Commentary. Very amusing.
- At some point in here, takes her OWLs. Her scores are not reported.
- Participates in the Battle at the Astronomy tower with the former DA, meaning Neville, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione. Luna receives no major injuries, along with the rest of the group, due to Harry's Felix Felicis.
- Year 5 ends.
* Attends Bill and Fleur's Wedding at the Burrow. Sees through Harry's Polyjuiced appearance.
* Year 6 begins. Hogwarts taken over by Death Eaters. Not happy times.
- Attempts to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword with Ginny and Neville. Caught by Snape. Given detention in Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.
- Reforms the DA with Ginny and Neville. Sabotage ensues. Trying to help Harry destroy Horcruxes ensues.
- Captured by Death Eaters on way home for Christmas Holidays in order to force her father to stop supporting Harry in the Quibbler.
- Kept in Malfoy Manor with Mr. Ollivander. Becomes his friend and comforts him during this time.
- Over Easter, Harry and company free everyone. Dobby helps. Dobby dies doing so. Luna closes his eyes and provides the Eulogy later.
- From the rescue until the Final Battle, Luna stays at Shell Cottage along with a few other people. Receives new wand from Mr. Ollivander.
- Final Battle. Luna lets Harry et al into the Ravenclaw Common Room to help find horcruxes. Stuns Carrow, a Death Eater, and witnesses Snape getting banished. Joins official battle. Helps Harry and company repel dementors. When it's all over, creates a diversion so Harry can escape the crowds.
- Year 6 ends. All is well.
Personality: Luna lives on a different plane of existence than most people, and only occasionally do her feet touch ground. She is a permanent resident of cloud cuckooland. She believes in anything that crosses her path. Crumple Horned Snorkacks? Check. Conspiracy theories involving the Ministry of Magic and heliopaths? Check. Anything from magical creatures who are only rumored to exist to gigantic conspiracy theories, Luna will buy into it before breakfast. The less sense it makes, the better. Although there's an art to Luna's strange fascinations and off-the-wall opinions. Almost everything she believes in has a grain of truth to it, only expanded to the point that only she can follow the logic in it. For example, Sirius Black is most certainly not Stubby Boardman, but he is innocent of his crimes as her father's paper proclaims. The Ministry of Magic doesn't have heliopaths, but they are complacent at best when Voldemort comes back. There aren't Crumple Horned Snorkacks, but there are more things in heaven and Earth than dreamt of in philosophies, so Luna believes in all of it.
Luna is surprisingly emotionally mature. Her things often get stolen, but she says she doesn't mind and that they always turn up again. Still, it's clear that Harry and company are her first and only friends, and even then they don't often treat her well. She doesn't seem to mind that, either. Even so, she understands and perceives more than it appears at first glance. She's capable of seeing through Harry's polyjuiced appearance because of the expression on his face. She knows that people call her "Loony Lovegood", but as mentioned above, she doesn't seem to mind. She knows that people think she's crazy, but she doesn't change her behavior to fit in at all. She wears necklaces made of butterbeer caps, earrings shaped like radishes, and gigantic lion hats no matter what. As anyone who's been through high school knows, it takes a certain amount of emotional fortitude to willingly stand out of the crowd. Luna persists in doing so, which demonstrates that she's made of slightly stronger stuff. This pays off in spades, because when she shifts the focus of her steady belief from odd creatures to normal people, loyalty ensues.
She's honest in a way that makes people uncomfortable. There's a bluntness when she talks about her lack of friends or her father's paper or the weird things she believes. Still, she remains calm almost always, even during battles and escape attempts. She's often seen comforting other characters, or else creating diversions for them. The only time she isn't being notably serene is when Hermione insults the Quibbler, and even then she goes right back to daydreaming afterward. There's certain degree of wisdom to her character, which is a little different than Hermione's logic even at the best times. This is best exemplified by her belief that she'll see her mother again. She understands complicated things and boils them down into simple things, via her characteristic bluntness. It's also worth mentioning that she's a Ravenclaw, meaning she's fair and intelligent. Considering the Ravenclaw password in the books, this means that she must be very good at riddles. A wit, if you will. Also, considering her father's knowledge of legends and stories, it wouldn't be too shocking if she knew some of them, too.
Other: Her patronus is a hare.
Additional Links: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Luna_Lovegood
First Person (entry type): You all have very nice handwriting. Especially whoever has the dark green script. The person with the blue slanted kind, too. One of you writes very darkly, though. It keeps leaving deep marks in the page that won't come out. Does anyone know how to get it out? I already tried using a wharlbird, but it didn't know what to do and flew away. I thought it might've worked too, because you're ducks. It says so at the top of the page. I never knew about the DramaDrama kind. You can write on parchment that doesn't belong to you, with different writing every time.
I thought I'd try writing back. Is it working? What do you see?
Third Person:
When Luna was ten years old, her father told her about Snipes. They were gigantic birds, larger than ostriches. He said they had beautiful feathers, and she thought of them looking like lollipops. The swirled kind the size of her head. She'd seen muggles eat them. They looked like every color, spun around and around and around, like a pinwheel. Like the feathers on Snipes, which her father told her about. They couldn't be found anywhere any more. Not here, not over there, not in a maze or in a forest or in a jungle or in a desert. Which, when Luna was ten, didn't make much sense, because how could something be somewhere, but not anywhere at all? Of course, that was before she learned about the Wrackspurts. Invisible hidden things. They flew in through your brain and made everything go fuzzy. They struck during parties. Flew in while people were talking with their friends. They struck during exams and made her forget everything she studied before. They were invisible to the eye. Like the Snipes her father told her about when she was ten.
But she remembered reading a story once, when she thought about the Snipes and Wrackspurts. It was a muggle story. There was a fox in it. No Snipes, though. But there was a rose, and a fox, and a desert. And asteroids, she remembered the asteroids. Where people lived, small people, which made her wonder how many wonderful things there could be up there, in the sky, in space, where nobody could see them. But she remembers the fox, who was talking to a boy. He had a cape. And the fox said, because the fox was very wise and said such things, that It Is Only With the Heart That One Can See Rightly; What Is Essential Is Invisible To the Eye. Only in French. And Luna was very young then, having not heard about Snipes or Snorkacks or Wrackspurts yet. But when she grew up, when her mother died, when her father taught her about Snipes, she remembered what the Fox said. Only in English this time.
Her father told her about Snipes, and how people would try to send her to find them when they thought she was crazy. Which didn't make sense, because Luna wasn't crazy so why would people think that about her? But her father told her that Snipes were what people sent you to find when they didn't know what to do with you. When they wanted you to go away for awhile. When they didn't believe you. When they didn't have Spectrespecs and couldn't see Wrackspurts. Even though they were there. And Luna thought about the fox from a story she read once upon a time. About invisible things. About visible things. And she thought that maybe there were Snipes after all, and that other people couldn't see them. They were looking with their eyes, after all.