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Luna "Loony" Lovegood (born c. 1981) is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series. She is described as looking like an embodiment of dottiness, with her wand tucked behind her ear for safekeeping and a necklace made of butterbeer corks. Luna's father is the editor of The Quibbler, where he prints "important stories he thinks the public needs to know." The stories are often ridiculously untrue and silly; however, Luna believes them and thus many consider her beliefs odd. Luna defends her beliefs, her father and his magazine against insults from other characters, most notably from Hermione Granger. The character will be portrayed by Evanna Lynch in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling's description of Luna Lovegood

J.K. Rowling has said that Luna is like an "anti-Hermione," as Luna believes things on faith alone and Hermione grounds her beliefs on facts and logic. Hermione repeatedly tries to convince Luna that her beliefs are nonsense, to no avail. Hermione sees Luna as very gullible and Luna sees Hermione as very narrow-minded. By the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hermione seems to have realised that Luna would not falter in her beliefs. Despite Luna's dottiness, she can be very perceptive about human nature, and Harry often notes her perceptiveness and knack for blunt honesty.

Biography

Luna is a Ravenclaw one year behind Harry Potter (being in the same year as Ginny Weasley). Luna is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, on the Hogwarts Express. When there is no other compartment for Harry, Ginny and Neville to sit in, Ginny convinces them to sit in that compartment.

Luna has straggly, waist-length dirty-blond hair and is described as having a dazed look on her face. Her eyes are described as "silvery" and "misty", which suggests they may be pale grey. They are also described as "protuberant", which adds to the peculiarity of her appearance. A common speculation is that the largeness of her eyes is not merely a comedic exaggeration, but as in many classical artworks, is symbolic of a keen sense of awareness, insight, or profound spirituality.

She is somehow separate from other students at Hogwarts and is often dazing or staring at people. She wears a necklace of Butterbeer corks and doesn't appear to care about what people call her.

She is called "Loony Lovegood" behind her back, although she is aware of this and doesn't seem to mind. Some of her classmates regularly steal her possessions and hide them for the fun of it. When she tells Harry this in an offhanded conversation, she unintentionally wins his sympathy. Harry is angry when he hears that people steal Luna's things and offers to help her find her lost things, but she refuses, saying that her things always turn up in the end. Luna believes Harry's story about his escape from Lord Voldemort, and defends it in front of a group of sceptical students.

During Luna's fourth year she joins Dumbledore's Army (The D.A.), and later participates in the desperate struggle for survival that ensues when Harry leads her, Hermione, Ginny, Ron and Neville into the Department of Mysteries, where they are ambushed by numerous Death Eaters.

While in the Department of Mysteries, Luna claims to be able to hear voices behind a mysterious veil (referred to in some fanfictions as the "Veil of Death" or the "Black Veil", though it is never named in the book itself) in the Death Chamber. Harry could also hear these voices and Luna appears to believe that dead people, including her mother and Sirius Black, are behind the veil.

When she explains this to Harry, who is having trouble getting over Sirius's death, he does not know what to make of it -- another unusual belief of Luna's, or perhaps a comforting metaphor? It is worth noting that Harry feels better after discussing Sirius' death with Luna, but he does not feel comfortable talking about it with anyone else, even his best friends. Many fans believe this is because Harry and Luna share horrible tragedies in their pasts and that they have both been considered to be mentally unbalanced by others and thus can relate to each other. Luna lost her mother in a traumatic accident when she was much younger, and Harry feels calmer after she speaks to him about her mother and his godfather.

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