Thursday, July 26, 2007

HARRY POTTER!: post five (another spoiler, I'm afraid)

Gotta tell ya, there are MORE SPOILERS in here. So proceed at your own risk. At your own PERIL, even.

If I were J. K. Rowling, I'd feel really relieved right now about being able to answer anybody's questions on anything having to do with Harry Potter, with no more need for secrecy. And maybe that's how she does feel.

Anyway, she's done an interview, which you can read here, in which there is information that makes me very happy:

Luna and Neville Longbottom?

It’s possible Luna has also found love with another member of the D.A.

When she was first asked about the possibility of Luna hooking up with Neville Longbottom several years ago, Rowling’s response was “Definitely not.” But as time passed and she watched her characters mature, Rowling started to “feel a bit of a pull” between the unlikely pair.

Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise “felt too neat.”

In other words, WOO HOO! My decision that Luna and Neville get together is perfectly legitimate. Rock on.

2 comments:

AVH said...

Way to go Neville and Luna! And Rachel for predicting! :)

MacKenzie said...

I'm sorry Rachel, but J.K. has now come out and said that Luna marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." But then again, she said at first that Ron was an auror but now she is saying he works with George at the joke shop so I think she needs to work on getting her story straight. I for one, would rather see Ron work with George. If he is a auror but Harry is the head of that department, I see him still being in the shadows and while I am glad he is okay with that at the end of the book, I think he deserves better.