Talk:Luna Lovegood/Archive 1

message: "Though her blood purity is never straight-foward, it is quite obvious she is pure blood. It does not seem that a muggle would be the editor of the Quibbler and she marked her mother as an extraordinary witch, therefore, she is pure-blood."
How do we know her mother was pure-blood? Muggle-borns can be extraordinary too, just look at Hermione. I think this line should be removed, as it is pure speculation. Is it ever specifically stated that her mother was pure blood? Is her father pure-blood? Can we verify that she had no muggle blood whatsoever in her heritage? Rowling said that to be considered pure-blood, one's grandparents must have all been wizards. Can we verify this?
It all just seems like it's on shaky ground to me.PiccoloNamek 18:56, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
:I have to concur.  Not only is this not necessarily accurate, it's also racist.  Assuming one must be pure-blood to be an 'extraordinary witch' is a) eugenics and b) downright wrong.
:The most that can be said is that "both her parents are wizards", I will change the article to reflect this. --TexasDex 20:15, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think it's racist considering that it has nothing at all to do with race and only pertains the age of the magical bloodline. I am not sure as to the particulars of blood heritage, but before you can say "pureblood" you have to prove that at the very least her grandparents, let alone great grandparents and those before them, were magical as well. Factually, where we stand now we do not have this information, and can thus only state what we know, which is that her parents are of magical heritage (or at least her father seems to be--though it is still possible that he is a squib).
I agree that Luna's blood heritage can not be determined conclusively based on the information given to us so far.  As others have mentioned, muggles can be extraordinary wizards, two very important characters prove this: Hermione and Lily, Harry's mom.  Also, I know this question may seem ridiculous, but have we ever been told specifically that Luna's father is a wizard, or have we all assumed that he is because he is completely immersed in the wizarding world?  I'll go check OoTP. Madelinerock 04:11, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Do we want to note in the template to read that part of the article for details on what we do know? Or leave as is completly? Im for either I just think it could help but I obviously am one person and its only been decided not to specify. --Shimonnyman 08:11, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pure Blood? 

message: I think the article could use some structuring. I haven't had the courage to read through it for lack of organization and headers. Circeus 19:58, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
:Ugh. That's an ugly article. I fixed it up a bit. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 00:41, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure 

message: ...and a necklace made of butterbeer caps.
That sounds misleeding to me.  A cap is a LOT more general than "cork", which my UK version of OotP uses (and I'm sure it's mentioned in HBP as well).  I see no reason not to use the word the book uses.  Okay to change it to cork?
: I don't oppose the change, but I'm pretty sure that the American English version of the book uses cap.--Prosfilaes 21:55, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I remember it as corks, and the HP Lexicon's Luna page lists corks -  Squidward2602 16:02, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

text: No, that sounds like a completely logical question.  This is a complete guess (as being a British citizen, I'm not an expert on American culture), but I'm assuming that the American publisher thought "cork" in this context was more of a British word, or maybe "cap" was more clear.  That's the only possible reason I can think of.--Cyberdude93 00:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butterbeer Caps? 

message: Luna doesn't have a love life. This section is misspelt crap:
"At the start of Order of the Phoenix when Luna and the others where on the train she seems to take a liking to Ron. She Laughs at Ron's "babbon backside" joke harder than anyone, this making a first sign that she fancies Ron. Later, Luna put's away the Quibbler and takes to "staring at everyone else" and stares at Ron as though he was a "mildly interesting television program" this is another sign (Note: JKR didn't describe how she was looking at Hermione, Harry, Neville or Ginny). Later, at the quidditch match, Luna has made a hat with a lion on it which roars like the real thing, Ron is impressed, then Hermione kisses Ron on the cheek (smart move, this means that Hermione is jealous of Ron and retaliates by kissing him).
In Half-Blood Prince Luna is seen on the train with Harry and Neville, here is we first learn that she has had no friends (this is one of the most touching things in the book), she also thanks Harry for saying that she is "cool". Later, she is found helping Hermione after Ron did a nasty impression of her jumping up with her hand every five seconds, here, after Hermione has left, he asks Luna to come with him to Slughorn's Party and would love to go to it "as friends" (Note: Luna becomes slightly softer to Harry in this book), Later, Ron makes a positive comment about Luna saying that she has "grown" on him. (Note: Luna might fancy Ron doesn't like Luna, Ron clearly fancies Hermione although Luna doesn't seem Jealous of Hermione)"
Njál 19:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Love Life' 

message: I don't think we should have a picture of Evanna Lynch in the head of this article, at least not until photos of her in costume appear. This might give a reader the impression that Luna looks like this, which isn't correct. The photo should be moved to the bottom of the article for now.
:Actually, I agree with you. - NathanHP (Talk • Contribs) 07:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, Wikipedia:Copyrights dictates this, because the Evanna Lynch picture is fair use and the fanart has been graciouslyreleased to us under a free license. Ashibaka tock 04:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of Evanna 

message: There's been a small revert war going on about the necklaces.  Some editors say they're turnips, some say they're radishes.  I looked, and in the American edition of the book, it says radish - does the British edition say something else?  Stev0 14:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The necklace

message: In the name section it said that Luna means moon in Latin, and Spanish; which is true.   But it also means moon in Italian, so rather than rattling off a couple of Latin-based languages with the same word for moon I think that it should only say, 'means moon in latin.'  Since the other languages are derived from Latin.  ABart26 21:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name