LUNA & XENOPHILIUS LOVEGOOD, AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE

Luna Lovegood

Today, The Stones and The Grandma have met two of the nicest and wonderful magic people, The Lovegood.

Luna Lovegood is a British witch and only child and daughter of Xenophilius Lovegood, a British wizard who works as the editor of The Quibbler magazine.

Luna is a closer friend of Harry Potter and a member of the Dumbledore Army.

Luna Lovegood is a British witch, the only child and daughter of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood.

Her mother accidentally died while experimenting with spells when Luna was nine and Luna was raised by her father, editor of the magazine The Quibbler, in a rook-like house near the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon.

Luna attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House. In her fourth year, Luna joined Dumbledore's Army, an organisation taught and led by Harry Potter, of which she became an important member.

She participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, and co-led the reconstituted Dumbledore's Army when Hogwarts fell under the control of Lord Voldemort.

Because of her father's political dissidence at the time, Luna was abducted by Death Eaters to be held ransom, and imprisoned in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor for months. She was freed by Dobby along with several other prisoners, and stayed at Shell Cottage until she returned to Hogwarts to participate in the final battle of the Second Wizarding War.

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After the war, Luna became a Magizoologist (Studies magical creatures) discovering and classifying many magical species that had never been encountered before.

Luna is the only child of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood. Luna's mother was accidentally killed while experimenting with a spell that she created when Luna was nine years old. Thus, Luna was subsequently raised by her father. As she witnessed her mother's death, she was able to see Thestrals, the magical skeletal black horses that led the Hogwarts carriages, from that point onward.

Luna Lovegood

Luna attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House.

One year behind the famous Harry Potter, she noticed Thestrals on her very first day of school.

During her years at Hogwarts, she was often teased by many of the other students due to her strange behaviour and odd beliefs. Some time during her early years at Hogwarts students had also taken to calling her Loony Lovegood.

Luna also met and became a friend of Ginny Weasley, who was in the same year as her. Se went to the Quidditch World Cup with her father.

In her third year at Hogwarts, she likely chose Divination as an elective, when Professor Sybill Trelawney claimed to miss her in class; Luna explained she had Firenze that year. She may have also have attended Study of Ancient Runes, she was seen reading an article written about runes in The Quibbler.

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In Luna's fourth year, she met and befriended Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom. She believed Harry's declaration that Lord Voldemort was back.

Luna has waist-length, straggly, dirty blonde hair, protuberant silvery eyes, which often seemed to be dreamily distracted, and faint eyebrows. She had an aura of distinct dottiness about her and was known to put her wand behind her left ear for safekeeping.

Luna had a unique fashion sense that other people usually found bizarre. She often wore odd pieces of jewellery such as a Butterbeer cork necklace and Dirigible plum earrings, and a pair of Spectrespecs. Luna also didn't wear shoes because students in her house would take her shoes and hide them.

Luna Lovegood and her Patronum

Luna Lovegood in Hogwarts

At Hogwarts Quidditch matches, Luna supported Gryffindor against every House except Ravenclaw; to show her support for Gryffindor, she would wear a hat in the shape of a lion head that roars, and to show support for Ravenclaw she would wear an eagle hat with flapping wings.

Luna was an extremely quirky girl, with a serene disposition and many eccentric beliefs and qualities.

Luna was also intelligent and unusually perceptive, having been sorted into Ravenclaw where those of wit and learning will always find their kind. She was a complete nonconformist; she lacked self-consciousness and was not afraid to show who she truly was.

She had an uncanny way of making others uncomfortable by being bluntly honest -Harry Potter described her as having a knack for embarrassing honesty. She was also completely unflappable and rarely seemed anxious or stressed, even under difficult circumstances such as being a prisoner of Malfoy Manor. Luna was very good at comforting others.

Luna's demeanour and voice were often distant and dreamy; she would drift away from a conversation she did not find interesting. However, whenever someone made fun of her father or his magazine The Quibbler, the dreamy quality in her voice would vanish and be replaced by one of steel, and she would immediately become very angry.

Luna means Moon in Latin, as well as in Italian, Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian and Romanian. People believed that the moon caused craziness, which may be why she's the way she is. Her nickname, Loony, also references the moon and its ties with insanity, as it is short for lunatic.

Lovegood is a real surname and a compound word, Love and Good. Speaking in accordance of her having good feelings for every person she knew, hence Lovegood.

Luna Lovegood is also alliterative, for effect.

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I enjoyed the meetings too,...

it was like having friends.

Luna Lovegood

Xenophilius "Xeno" Lovegood was a British wizard who works as the editor of The Quibbler magazine, the husband of Pandora, and the father of Luna Lovegood.

His wife died when their only child was nine years old, and he raised his daughter by himself. He was likely the source of his daughter’s eccentric beliefs, although he was often correct in his assumptions.

He believed in the existence of the Deathly Hallows and supported Harry Potter in The Quibbler when few others would.

Xenophilius Lovegood

Xenophilius and Luna lived in a house shaped like a rook chess piece near the village of Ottery St Catchpole and were friends with the Weasleys.

Xenophilius and Luna attended Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding at the Burrow.

After the Second Wizarding War, he left the prison and continued editing The Quibbler.

Xenophilius was born into the Lovegood family and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was sorted into Ravenclaw.

At an unknown time, he married Pandora Lovegood with whom he had a daughter, Luna Lovegood. He raised Luna himself after Pandora died when her magical experiment went wrong.

Xenophilius created a magazine called The Quibbler, in which he wrote about his obscure beliefs, including the Crumple-Horned Snorkack.

At some point during his life, Xenophilius attended one of Eldred Worple's book signings. He presumably shared his bizarre beliefs with Worple, not to mention his choice of clothing and accessories, as the latter remembered him as a seriously unbalanced man.

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Xenophilius published Harry Potter's story about the night he saw Lord Voldemort return and sent Harry a free copy.

This was the fastest-selling edition of The Quibbler, even being reprinted at least once before Mr Lovegood sold the story to The Daily Prophet.

The Lovegoods used the money received from selling the story to the Prophet to travel to Sweden over the summer to search for a Crumple-Horned Snorkack.

When Rufus Scrimgeour became Minister for Magic, Xenophilius planned to print a story in The Quibbler stating that Scrimgeour was in fact a vampire. However the Ministry stepped in and prevented him from printing the story; Xenophilius believed that this was because the Ministry did not want the truth to get out. 

Xenophilius Lovegood & Luna Lovegood

Xenophilius Lovegood & Harry Potter

Xenophilius's public support of Harry Potter eventually got him in trouble with Death Eaters, many speculated why the Death Eaters had let him get away with it for so long.

Xenophilius was an eccentric-looking wizard, who looked slightly cross-eyed and had shoulder length hair that was the texture of candyfloss.

Xenophilius cared a great deal about his daughter Luna, and shared her bizarre beliefs; he was likely the cause of them. He thought The Daily Prophet was an awful paper, and only published stories that he thought were important and needed to be known by the public.

He was extremely firm in his beliefs and felt those who disbelieve in them are painfully limited, narrow and close-minded. Every time a sceptic demands the evidences for his beliefs, he in turn asks them to prove them untrue themselves.

Due to his bizarre views, many in the wizarding world thought he was senile. Elfred Worple even remembered him as a seriously unbalanced man after meeting him at one of his book signings.

According to Luna, her father did not care about making money and did not pay people to write for The Quibbler; she claims they did so because it was an honour to see their name in print.

Luna also said that her father was supportive of any anti-Ministry action. Mr Lovegood fully supported Harry Potter and encouraged others to do so as well.

Xenophilius' name comes from two Greek words: Xenos, strange and -Phile, love. As opposed to xenophobe, one who fears the strange, his name means one who loves the strange.

Xenophilius' name bears a similarity to The X-Files, and like X-Files main character Fox Mulder, he describes himself as a believer. Both characters investigate and believe in numerous conspiracy theories which are not accepted by their mainstream culture.

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The most eccentric-looking wizard...

Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair

the texture of candyfloss, he wore a white cap

whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes

of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.

An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye,

glistened from a golden chain around his neck. 

J.K. Rowling about Xenophilius Lovegood

 

The Quibbler, marketed as The Wizarding World's Alternative Voice, is a wizarding tabloid published and edited by Xenophilius Lovegood, father of Luna Lovegood.

Luna gets every issue of The Quibbler when it is published, which could contribute to her often odd beliefs.

The Quibbler publishes odd articles, including conspiracy theories and discussions of imaginary creatures; it also published Rita Skeeter's interview of Harry Potter on Lord Voldemort's return.

Many think The Quibbler is rubbish, including Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, and Dirk Cresswell; the latter referred to it as a lunatic rag, and when Hermione informed Rita that she would be publishing the interview in The Quibbler, Rita looked at Hermione with disdain.

The Quibbler

Publishing of The Quibbler started by the 1980s. The magazine published many ridiculous articles, such as those on the supposed existence of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. The magazine had an article about a witch who did not know she was a werewolf.

Reading The Quibbler was part of sixth year Divination. There was at least one mention of Celestina Warbeck saying something, which students did not believe was something she actually said.

The magazine published an edition with an article that put forward the theory that Sirius Black was actually the reclusive rock star Stubby Boardman.

When Harry Potter read the article on the Hogwarts Express, he found it to be total rubbish. The same issue also had a segment written in Runes which caused the reader to look at the magazine upside down, which was probably why Luna Lovegood read it upside down.

The Quibbler scored a journalistic coup when the magazine agreed to run an interview with Harry Potter concerning the Rebirth of Lord Voldemort. The interview, given by ex-Daily Prophet columnist Rita Skeeter, was published in the March edition, and as it offered another take on recent events, the magazine quickly sold out.

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Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry bureaucrat acting as the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and later Headmistress at Hogwarts, banned students from having copies of The Quibbler after this article, as she and the Ministry were intent on denying Lord Voldemort's return.

However, Hermione Granger was very pleased about this, saying that the one thing Umbridge could have done to make all the students and teachers want to read it was to ban it, as the students were very focused on rebelling against the sadistic tyrant.

Luna Lovegood & The Quibbler

Harry Potter received lots of fan mail during breakfast at the Great Hall, and some letters said he had them convinced, especially after the Ministry's poor reaction to the mass breakout from Azkaban.

In the article, he names all the Death Eaters he saw in the Little Hangleton graveyard and gives as many details as he could of the night Lord Voldemort returned.

Though Rita was displeased about writing for The Quibbler, and even more displeased that she wasn't going to get paid for it, she was blackmailed into writing the article by Hermione, who threatened to reveal to the world that Skeeter was an unregistered Animagus.

The interview with Harry Potter went on to be one of the biggest selling individual issues ever. After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the world was forced to believe Lord Voldemort had returned, The Daily Prophet began to stop slandering Harry Potter and call him the lone voice of truth.

In addition, they used this interview in their paper, calling it exclusive, even though it was printed in The Quibbler months ago. By late summer that same year, The Quibbler had returned to its usual form, offering an issue with free Spectrespecs to see Wrackspurts.

During the height of the Second Wizarding War, when Lord Voldemort took over the Ministry of Magic, The Quibbler was one of the only media outlets to print the truth and publicly support Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. To combat this dissent, the Death Eaters abducted Luna Lovegood, and held her hostage against Xenophilius Lovegood's good behaviour in the basement of Malfoy Manor.

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Dad's reprinting!... I can't believe it,

he says people seem even more interested

in this than the Crumple-Horned Snorkacks!

Luna Lovegood