Character:Luna Scamander
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| Luna Scamander | |
| Nicknames and aliases | Loony Lovegood |
| Parents | Mr. and Mrs. Lovegood |
| Spouse | Rolf Scamander |
| Children | Lorcan and Lysander Scamander |
| Appearance | waist-length dirty blonde hair; protuberant grey eyes; very faint eyebrows |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Ravenclaw |
| Occupation | Wizarding Naturalist |
| Allegiance | Dumbledore's Army, Hogwartian |
| Portrayer in the movies | Evanna Lynch |
| First appearance in canon | The Portkey (GF) (mention) / Luna Lovegood (OP) (appearance) |
Luna Scamander is a Ravenclaw student who attends Hogwarts in the same year as Ginny. She is a member of Dumbledore's Army and a friend of the Trio.
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Characteristics
Luna has waist-long dirty blonde hair, protuberant grey eyes, and with very faint eyebrows. She does not blink much, giving her a permanently surprised look. Her accessories are unique and often rather odd, and include radish earrings and a necklace made of Butterbeer corks. She often tucks her wand behind her ear (OP10).
Luna is often called "Loony" because of her different, often wild, views, including her belief in strange, nonexistent creatures, such as Nargles, aquavirus maggots and Crumple-Horned Snorkacks. These reflect the beliefs of her father, editor of The Quibbler, which is a wizarding newspaper resembling a tabloid and is full of ridiculous assertions and far-fetched news stories, such as the statement thet Cornelius Fudge ordered goblins to be cooked in pies . However, despite the ridicule others subject her to, she stands up for what she believes in, remaining indifferent to other people's skepticism and judgment. She has a disturbing habit of speaking uncomfortable truths and is patient and accepting of others, even when people steal her belongings for fun.
Her Patronus is a hare (DH32).
Childhood
Luna's mother died in a freak accident when the girl was ten; an experiment of Mrs. Lovegood's went wrong, resulting in her death. Since then, Luna has lived with her father, the editor of the Quibbler. The two live near Ottery St. Catchpole, as do the Weasleys, the Fawcetts and the Diggories (GF5).
Luna's attitude toward her mother's death is fairly pragmatic: while she is sad that her mother is dead, she is grateful she still has her father.
Hogwarts
When she arrived at Hogwarts, Luna was Sorted into Ravenclaw. She had few friends in her House, but became close to Ginny Weasley, who then introduced her to Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and her brother Ron when the girls began their fourth year at the school.
Luna as a fourth-year
Immediately the Trio and Neville were surprised and confused by the girl's behaviour during their trip on the Hogwarts Express. She randomly gave them information about their own deeds ("You went to the Yule Ball with Padma Patil"), and read The Quibbler upside down. She found Ron's joke about making Goyle do lines as a detention endlessly amusing, and at the moment the lights turned off, she began staring at everyone in her compartment. Once they left the train, Harry started to worry about seeing horses that no one else could see and the girl told him that she could also see them. For obvious reasons, this didn't leave him feeling particularly reassured (OP10).
Luna showed her point of view, saying that she didn't think that Hagrid was a good teacher, and when she said so, the Trio and Ginny retort in a rude way, but she didn't seem to mind much (OP11). The next time Harry saw her, she was leaving her Herbology class with Ginny, and told him that she believed he was right about Voldemort's return. She didn't seem annoyed when she noticed that Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil were laughing at her, even though she thought they were laughing about her words and not her radish earrings.
Luna gets irritated when people try to deny her beliefs; when Hermione told her that there is no such thing as the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, she just got frustrated with her (HBP12).
Luna went all by herself to the meeting Hermione was organising at the Hog's Head. When she learned that Cornelius Fudge had sent Dolores Umbridge to Hogwarts in order to prevent them from getting proper lessons because he was afraid that Dumbledore would create himself an army to attack the Ministry of Magic, she merely said that it made sense since the Minister for Magic has his own army of Heliopaths (OP16).
During the first meeting of Dumbledore's Army, Luna had an inconsistent performance with the spell Expelliarmus; sometimes she managed to spin the wand out of her partner's hand, other times only managing to cause his hair to stand on end. When Ernie tried to disentangle himself from his robes, she started listening to the conversation between Cho Chang and Harry, who were talking about Marietta Edgecombe. While Cho said that she would be coming to the meeting, despite the fact that her parents had forbidden her to do anything that could upset Umbridge, Luna said that her father supported any anti-Ministry of Magic action. She started to talk about how many goblins Fudge had assassinated (quoting from an article from The Quibbler) and accused him of using the Department of Mysteries to breed new poisons to feed to his opponents (OP18).
The day of Ron's first Quidditch game as a keeper, Luna came to their table during breakfast with a hat shaped like a lion head; the life-size figure roared every time she tapped it with her wand. She told the Weasley boy that she supported Gryffindor, and wished him good luck after complaining that she didn't have the time to add a serpent for the lion to chew to represent Slytherin (OP19).
Luna was the first to arrive at the Room of Requirement on the last D.A. meeting before Christmas, and she seemed to enjoy Dobby's decoration for the holidays, although she complained that mistletoe is often infested with Nargles (OP21).
After the mass break-out from Azkaban, Hermione contacted Rita Skeeter and asked the journalist to write and interview Harry on his story of how Voldemort had come back. Luna asked her father to publish it in The Quibbler. While Hermione told Rita and Harry about her plans, Luna just sat with them in the Three Broomsticks, singing Weasley Is Our King under her breath. During the interview she mentioned that her father thought that the Daily Prophet was a terrible newspaper, and that he only printed stories about what he thought people wanted to read, making Rita snort out loud. Skeeter asked how much she would be paid for submitting her story to the paper, and Luna replied her father didn't pay people to write to the magazine. She later said that her dad would be pleased about the interview (OP25).
Luna warned Harry that her father was waiting for an important story on Crumple-Horned Snorkacks, and that he might have to wait until the following edition. When the magazine with his interview had been published, Luna asked her father to send Harry a free copy and walked up to the Gryffindor table during breakfast to tell him the magazine started being sold on the following day and that all those letters are probably from readers. By dinner time, she came to tell him that the magazine had never sold so fast and that her dad was already reprinting the edition (although the Lovegoods can't believe people were more interested in this than on Crumple-Horned Snorkacks) (OP26).
For the final match of the Quidditch season, Luna replaced her lion hat with an eagle one (OP30).
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Full article: Battle of the Department of Mysteries
After Harry dreamed that his godfather, Sirius Black, was being tortured in the Department of Mysteries, Ginny and Luna found him screaming with Ron and Hermione. The group decided to use the two fourth-years as a look-out so that Harry and Hermione could use Umbridge's fireplace to try to contact the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix to see whether Sirius had left the house or not. Luna asked they meant Stubby Boardman when they said "Sirius" and then wondered how the group would get to the Ministry. The girls stood on the either side of the Headmistress' office, telling everyone that someone had let off a load of Garroting Gas (OP32).
When the High Inquisitor finds Harry and Hermione using her fire, her Inquisitorial Squad bring Ron, Luna, Ginny and Neville inside. While Ginny tried to release herself from the sixth year Slythering girl that had a hold on her, Hermione tried to break free from Millicent Bulstrode, Neville becomes more and more purple under Crabbe's grip and Ron struggles against Warrington. Luna stays standing by the side of her captor, looking bored. But even the Ravenclaw was surprised when Hermione tells Dolores that they were trying to contact Professor Dumbledore (OP32).
After Harry and Hermione lead the Headmistress into the Forbidden Forest promising to show her the weapon Dumbledore asked them to create, the other kids easily get rid of their captors, using jinxes they learned on the D.A. classes. Harry and Ron try to stop Neville, Ginny and Luna from coming to the Department of Mysteries, but the arguments their Gryffindor mates use shut Harry and Ron up. As they begin arguing about how to getthere, Luna says that she thought that they had decided to fly. As Ron started getting annoyed and saying that even if Luna could fly without a broom most of them couldn't, she pointed out that the Thestrals could fly and were good at finding places. So, as more and more of the winged horses arrived, attracted by the smell of blood, Luna and Harry helped Neville, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sit upon the Thestrals, and the six students set off for London (OP33).
When they arrived, Luna was the only one who managed to dismount smoothly. She entered the telephone box with the others and they got inside the Ministry Atrium. As Harry led them to the door of the Department of Mysteries, she looked surprised. Once they were inside the Brain Room, Luna said that her father always thought that they were breeding Aquavirius Maggots before Hermione pointed out that they are brains. As they walked inside the Death Room, Luna told Harry that she too could hear the voices near the veil (Ginny also seemed to hear them), and after the knife Sirius gave Harry melted while trying to open a room, she wondered what could be inside (OP34).
As they met the Death Eaters in the Hall of Prophecy, they all raised their wands while Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange tried to talk to Harry. They started exploding the prophecies while trying to escape; Luna and Ginny ran out of the room with their arms hiding their faces against the shattering glass. Ron and the two girls entered a different room from the one Hermione, Harry and Neville did, and the groups started to look for each other. Later Harry found out that the other group entered the Planet Room with four of the Death Eaters following them and one of the dark wizards got hold of Ginny's ankle and broke it, although Luna exploded Pluto in his face; she added that she didn't know what had happened to Ron, but he was giggling about everything he saw She tried to help Ginny to stand, and although the red-head refused her help, when she collapsed Luna held her.
Neville, Harry and Luna tried to lock all of the doors around them, so that the Death Eaters wouldn't be able to get in, but one of them managed to attack the Ravenclaw; she spent the rest of the battle unconsious (OP35). Luna was sent to the Hospital Wing with the others as soon as she got back to Hogwarts, but was released almost as soon as she came in. She kept visiting the others, and as the Daily Prophet printed Harry's interview from The Quibbler, she told the lot that her dad sold it to them. The Lovegoods decided to go to Sweden during their holidays to chase Crumple-Horned Snorkacks (OP37).
Harry wandered around the castle instead of going to the end of term feast; when he turned towards the Fat Lady's corridor, he saw Luna fastening a note to a board on the wall. She said that she was not at the feast because she had lost all her things; people had hidden them from her. She was therefore putting up notices, because it was the last night of term and she needed everything back.
Harry felt sorry for her, and offered to help look for the objects. She voiced her confidence that everything would show up at some point, and asked why he wasn't at the feast. Harry said simply that he did not feel like going; she understood his reasoning, mentioning Sirius, and Harry was reminded that Luna was one of the few students he knew who could see Thestrals (OP10).
Luna tells him that she still felt sad from time to time about her mother's death but she knew that it wasn't as if she'd never see her mother again; then she reminded him of the voices they both had heard beyond the veil. Luna skipped away, and somehow Harry felt a bit better (OP37)
Luna as a fifth-year
Luna once more traveled on the Hogwarts Express with Harry, Neville, Ron and Hermione. People stare at the girl and Neville while they are trying to find a compartment. Longbottom thinks that it's because they are with Harry, but the Boy-Who-Lived pointed out that it was probably because they took part in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. As soon as they found themselves seats, Luna asked if they were going to carry on with D.A. meetings -- she missed them, she said, because it was like having friends. When Romilda Vane walked inside and invited Harry to join her and her friends in another comparment, Luna was wearing her Spectrespecs; the fourth year insulted Harry's choice of company, but he defended Neville and Luna, saying that they were his friends and he would rather sit with them than with "cooler people." This expression of friendship pleased Luna. When Harry got distracted with his thoughts, she asked him if a Wrackspurt has gotten him (HBP7).
For the first Quidditch match of the season -- Gryffindor vs. Slytherin - Luna broke out her lion-topped hat once again (HBP14). Later, when Ron started dating Lavender and made fun of Hermione's way of asking Professor McGonagall questions, Luna finds her friend inside one of the girls' bathrooms and tried to comfort her. As Harry reaches them with Hermione's books, Luna told him that at first she thought it was Moaning Myrtle but it turned out to be Hermione. The boy explained that the Gryffindor girl had a row with Ron, and Luna answered that she had noticed that even if Ron can be very funny, he also can be unkind. Harry asked her how her term is going, and she said she is feeling lonely without the D.A., but that Ginny was being nice to her and stopped a couple of boys from calling her Loony in their Transfiguration classes.
Harry asked her if she wanted to go to Slughorn's Christmas party with him, just as friends, and Luna got very excited at the prospect. She told him that she'd love to go with him - as friends - and that no one had ever asked her to a party before - as friends. She asked if she should dye one of her eyebrows for the party, as Harry had one blond eyebrow, but he tells her not to. Peeves showed up and overheard the conversation; he flew off singing "Potty invited Loony to the party, Potty luuuurvs Loony". Soon enough, the whole school knew that they were attending the party together. Ron looked very surprised that even though Harry could take anyone he wanted, he was taking Luna but Ginny congratulated Harry and said that his date was very excited about the party.
Luna wore a set of silver spangled robes to the party, which caused a certain amount of giggling from the people passing by. As they walked to Slughorn's office, Harry asks her if she heard that there might be a vampire among the guests, and Luna asked him if he was talking about Rufus Scrimgeour, since her father had written a long article about the new Minister for Magic being a vampire but had been forbidden to publish it. They walked among the guests together; as soon as they met Hermione - who's hiding from Cormac McLaggen - Luna started a conversation with Sybill Trelawney. As Slughorn and Snape arrived and the conversation led Harry to say that he'd like to be an Auror, Luna advised him not to since all Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy. When Argus Filch brought Draco Malfoy inside and Snape left to punish him, Harry tells Luna that he was going to the bathroom and left the girl talking to the Divination teacher (HBP15).
McGonagall allowed Luna to to act as the commentator for a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Huffepuff. Luna couldn't keep track of what was happening in the game or remember the name of the players. She called Cadwallader "Bibble" and "Buggins" before the teacher corrected her. She also decided to talk about Harry's argument with McLaggen instead of giving the spectators an idea of what was happening on the pitch. Luna also wondered if Zacharias Smith was suffering from Loser's Lurgy, since he couldn't keep the Quaffle. Her vague commentary made Harry notice that McLaggen had gotten hold of Peakes's bat; when Harry told the Gryffindor Keeper off, he was hit by a bludger. Ron, who was in the Hospital Wing after almost dying (HBP18) was deeply amused by her commentary (HBP19).
When Harry and Ron were able to leave the infirmary, Luna met the boys and Hermione, and delivered a note with the date of Dumbledore's next lesson. The red-headed boy tells her that he liked her commentary, but she thoguht that he was making fun of her since everyone thought it was dreadful. Luna gave him a Gurdyroot, which according to her was good to ward off Gulping Plimpies (HBP20).
Luna and Neville were the only ex-members of the D.A. that show up when Hermione sent them a message through their magic galleons. Both of them, along with Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Lupin, Tonks, Bill Weasley and McGonagall are the only ones who fight the Death Eaters during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower (HBP28).
Luna went to the Hospital Wing with the others when they went to see how Bill was doing after being attacked by Fenrir Greyback. She got near to crying when she heard how Dumbledore died, because Luna and Hermione had been near Snape's office and were fooled by him when he stupefied Flitwick and told the girls that the Head of Ravenclaw had fallen ill. Lupin consoled her, saying that Snape would have probably killed both of them if they hadn't done what he told them to (HBP29). (It is also worth noting that at the very least Hermione, (along with Ron and Ginny) and possibly Luna as well were under the influence of Harry's Felix Felicis potion that night; Ginny's ability to dance out the way of Amycus Carrow's spells suggests that the potion was definitely effective. If that is the case, then one possible assumption that may made is that allowing Snape to go up to the Astronomy Tower was a good thing.)
Luna attended Dumbledore's funeral, helping Neville, still injured from the battle, get a seat (HBP30).
Luna as a sixth-year
At Bill and Fleur's wedding, Luna appeared in a bright yellow dress; though Harry was disguised as a Weasley cousin using Polyjuice Potion, she immediately recognized him (DH8).
Back at Hogwarts that autumn, Luna participated in the 'underground resistence' with Neville and other members of the D.A. With Ginny and Neville, she attempted to steal the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape to give to Harry (DH15).
On the train back to Ottery St. Catchpole, she was abducted by the Death Eaters and held captive in Malfoy Manor (along with Mr. Ollivander) in order to coerce cooperation from her father, who attempted in his desperation to turn Harry over to the Ministry (DH20).
Harry, Ron and Hermione rescued Luna and Ollivander from Malfoy Manor during the late spring (DH24). Luna recovered blithely, as usual, and seemed to become close to Dean Thomas (DH25).
Luna turned up with the rest of the D.A. in response to Neville's summons in time for the Battle of Hogwarts. When Ginny objected to Cho Chang leading Harry to the Ravenclaw tower, Luna took him instead (DH29). Later, when Harry, Ron and Hermione were about to be overcome by Dementors, Luna was one of a group of students who used their Patronuses to drive off the creatures (DH32).
At the final confrontation in the Great Hall, Luna dueled with Bellatrix Lestrange alongside Ginny and Hermione. After the battle, she helped Harry to escape under his Invisibility Cloak by pretending to see a Blibbering Humdinger.
Adulthood
After completing her education at Hogwarts, Luna became a Wizarding Naturalist, traveling the world in search of new, strange creatures, though she did finally acknowledge that some creatures may not exist, despite her father's beliefs. She may have had a romantic relationship with Neville Longbottom (MSNBC). She eventually married Newt Scamander's grandson Rolf Scamander, many years after the marriages of Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione. With Rolf, she had two sons: Lysander and Lorcan (BLC).
Trivia
Full article: Luna Believes In...
Fanon
Luna is often described as Ginny's best friend. In canon, we only know that a) they grew up near the same village, b) they seem to enjoy each others' company (as they are seen together on numberous occasions) and c) when Ginny introduces Luna to Harry and Neville, she calls the blonde girl "Loony," but immediately says, "She's all right"—which some fans take to suggest that Ginny is using the nickname lovingly, rather than pejoratively. (OP10)
Ships
Canon
- Luna/Harry (This can be considered a canon ship since Luna accompanied Harry to the Slug Club party; however, both Luna and Harry understood that they were going "as friends.")
- Luna/Rolf
Fanon
Heterosexual
Femmeslash
