random prattle about draco/luna inspired by a question in ship_debate

[static_pixie]

Like I said above, Draco/Luna's a favorite of mine from time to time. I read a fic once where they sort of got together and then almost immediately broke up, but in the process of trying to understand each other both really learned something. And I think that that really goes to the heart of Draco/Luna. I mean, they both have that dad thing,

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[kirabana]

i totally agree.

d/l isn't as weird as i orginally thought

[static_pixie]

No, it's really not. They could have some intense, intense chemistry if done right.

[go_back_chief]

Draco/Luna has ever since I first started liking it, evolved to one of my favourite ships, and what you're saying here is defnitely part of the reason for it. They are each other's opposite in many ways (Draco is incredibly intensive and very much present whereas Luna lives in her own little world literary), but they are also similar. My favourite kind of ships are actually the ones where I think the involved parties can learn something from each other -I don't care much about the forever lasting-kind of love

[glorfindelghost]

I was just thinking the other day that d/l really works in canon post-HBP: I feel that once Draco is a bit calmer about his loss of reputation then he's going to be open to new possibilities, rethinking things, wanting a bit of comfort - and there's Luna, the girl who couldn't give a damn about reputation, who can offer this delightfully skewed perspective and is such a dreamer (albeit quite a perceptive one)that there's something free about her company aned her lack of grounded intensity. That could really work for me (and of course, JKR is very fond of her slightly Freudian pairings - Blonde haired, blue eyed Luna = Blonde haired, blue eyed Narcissa?).

[static_pixie]

I'll add to the Freud idea; Draco's arc seems to be following Harry's in that book 6 was for him what 5 was for Harry. Meaning book 7 may just be Draco's book 6, where he finally finds some inner peace. In the middle of a war. Typical. ^^ Anyway, Ginny's a year younger than Harry and Luna would be a year younger than Draco. And I really think Luna's going to die, so there's the 'come together and then part' angle of it.

But yeah, when the Gryffindor tempers were just getting to him too much he could retreat back to Luna if he ends up with the Order. I think they'd both be on the outside in that sense. And, you know, they both think Hagrid's a total idiot, too. Which really has no relevance, it just makes me smile. :)

But wow would that ever play terribly in the movies. Tom Felton and Evanna Lynch look like they could be brother and sister and....eww.

[glorfindelghost]

Oooh, I like that a lot, the idea of Draco being a book behind and echoing Harry's progress. I'm not hopeful about Luna's survival prospects either - as you say, she's rather arc-less, but I think there may be something planned for her.

But yeah, when the Gryffindor tempers were just getting to him too much he could retreat back to Luna if he ends up with the Order. I think they'd both be on the outside in that sense.

I've always liked the way that Luna is the complete opposite to all the Gryff's - she's like this unlikely oasis of serene sanity - I could see Draco, among others, being drawn to that and sort of embracing his 'otherness'.

But wow would that ever play terribly in the movies. Tom Felton and Evanna Lynch look like they could be brother and sister and....eww.Heh - Lynch is still growing though, she could change quite a bit. Although I see what you mean - apart from the blindingly brassy dye jobs there's something similar in the eye and the chin. and possibly the nose and the mouth. Ok, yeah...ew. And there's a 4 year