Harry never consciously explains why he doesn’t ask Hermione to Slughorn’s party, but the books give us a pretty good idea.
In Herbology, Harry overhears Hermione telling Ron she was going to invite him to the party, only for Ron to respond with a jealous rant about McLaggen.
«“You were going to ask me?” asked Ron, in a completely different voice.
“Yes,” said Hermione angrily. “But obviously if you’d rather I hooked up with McLaggen…”
There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel.
“No, I wouldn’t,” said Ron, in a very quiet voice.»
Harry hears everything. He even wishes the pod would fly farther away so he wouldn’t have to sit through their conversation. He knows his two best friends are dancing around each other, and afterward, he starts imagining what their relationship might look like, from Bill and Fleur levels of affection to a disastrous breakup like his own with Cho.
Ron is Harry’s best friend. He’s practically family. So even though Ron ultimately wastes his chance with Hermione, Harry may not want to complicate things by asking her himself. He might also feel guilty about his own role in their falling-out: deliberately pretending to put Felix Felicis in Ron’s pumpkin juice, knowing Hermione would object, and setting off the argument that helped push Ron toward Lavender.
Harry initially wants to take a girl he likes. Unfortunately, Ginny is dating Dean, so she’s unavailable. Romilda Vane and several other girls are eager for him to ask them, but their attempts to get his attention with love-potion-laced chocolates and drinks end in the predictable disaster involving Ron.
Then Harry finds Luna comforting Hermione after Ron cruelly imitates her jumping up and down to answer a question in class.
Later, while talking to Luna, Harry asks:
«“So have you had a good term?”
“Oh, it's been all right,” said Luna. “A bit lonely without the DA. Ginny's been nice, though. She stopped two boys in our Transfiguration class calling me ‘Loony’ the other day—”
“How would you like to come to Slughorn's party with me tonight?” The words were out of Harry's mouth before he could stop them; he heard himself say them as though it were a stranger speaking.
Luna turned her protuberant eyes upon him in surprise. “Slughorn's party? With you?”
“Yeah,” said Harry. “We're supposed to bring guests, so I thought you might like… I mean…” He was keen to make his intentions perfectly clear. “I mean, just as friends, you know. But if you don't want to…”
He was already half-hoping that she didn't want to.
“Oh no, I'd love to go with you as friends!” said Luna, beaming as he had never seen her beam before. “Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend! Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine, too?”»
That last part matters. Harry isn’t asking Luna because he’s romantically interested in her. He asks because her loneliness resonates with him. He knows what it feels like to be an outsider, to feel alone even when surrounded by people.
And when Luna tells him that Ginny has been standing up for her, Harry sees an opportunity to do the same.
Harry asks Luna because she’s one of his people.
It’s friendship. It’s family. He wants her to know she isn’t alone, that she matters to someone, and that she has people who care about her.
Between Harry and Ginny, she does. And Harry wants to make sure she knows it.
nothing more beautiful than gai reaching kakashi's heart in the end.
even when kakashi showed no signs of change, even when he pushed everyone away, gai could read his heart, knew kakashi was hurting, knew he needed gai in his life, and stuck by his side through everything.
Movie Luna Lovegood is lovable, but I think the films completely soften how complicated and, at times, heartbreaking her character actually is in the books.
In the movies, Luna’s weird beliefs are mostly treated as charming and whimsical. We hear about the bullying, but rarely see how bad it actually is. In the books, it’s much worse. Even Ginny casually calls her “Loony,” Neville doesn’t want to sit with her on the Hogwarts Express until Ginny reassures him it’s okay, and people openly point and laugh at her in the corridors. Even Hermione, who knows what it’s like to feel like an outsider, can be dismissive of Luna.
Book Luna also gets genuinely irritated and angry, especially when she clashes with Hermione. Their arguments become this whole science-versus-faith dynamic. Luna believes things without needing proof, while Hermione needs evidence, and they constantly butt heads over it. The movies mostly remove that side of Luna and make her much more consistently calm and airy.
Then there’s Luna’s bedroom. When the trio visits the Lovegood house, we discover she has painted huge pictures of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Ginny on her ceiling. It’s sweet at first, but it’s also kind of heartbreaking. These are people she only became close to relatively recently, yet she’s surrounded herself with their faces. And while they clearly like Luna, her feelings toward them seem much stronger. She lives nearby, yet she isn’t even invited when Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny are all together at the Burrow before school. That friendship feels strangely unbalanced.
And I really dislike the movies giving Luna and Neville a romantic flicker in Deathly Hallows. They both have complete character arcs without needing romance to finish them. In the books, they’re simply friends, and that’s enough.
But the darkest part might actually be Luna’s relationship with her father. The movies make the Quibbler look like an alternative newspaper that publishes Harry’s side of the story. The books show what Xenophilius actually believes and publishes: conspiracy theories about Sirius Black being musician Stubby Boardman, claims that Cornelius Fudge is a goblin serial killer, and his obsession with the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. He even keeps a dangerous Erumpent horn in his house because he genuinely believes it’s something else, and it nearly destroys the place.
So Luna wasn’t just a quirky girl who happened to believe strange things. She was raised by a father who taught her to distrust almost everything everyone else believed, while filling her head with misinformation that he genuinely believed himself. Then she goes to school and gets ridiculed for believing those exact things.
The movies made Luna charming.
The books make Luna charming, lonely, angry, fiercely loyal, and much more complicated than the “quirky girl” image the films gave us.
@babiesunderhood вы выглядите потрясающе! на неделе не было времени почитать ваши твиты, но обязательно это сделаю, а пока что пожелаю вам сил и радости❤️
Тата: «а бабушка с дедушкой всегда голосовали одинаково. раньше, в моем детстве, было все не так сложно, и они заходили в кабинку вдвоем, ну и я с ними. они иногда даже спорили, за кого им обоим проголосовать)) варианта «каждый голосует как хочет» не существовало»
обсуждали с сестрой выборы, я говорю, мол, мама голосовала за лдпр, Тата: «тогда я не удивлюсь, если они вообще в парламент не пройдут. мама вечно голосует за каких-то аутсайдеров-оппозиционеров (мама всегда голосовала за яблоко)
а папа голосовал за кпрф
Я... Завидую людям, у которых была подростковая любовь. У меня вот никогда не было. Ни любви, ни свиданий, ни поцелуев.
Была только идиотская односторонняя влюбленность с чувством, что меня недостаточно и я слишком плохая для этого
В общем, ранние отношения - привилегия красивых
Вы влюбляетесть, ты ходишь на стрелки ее абьюзера, тайно встречаетесь, лезешь ей в окно чтобы выкрасть ее погулять, ведь ее заперли насильно. из-за смертельной травмы ты едешь в другую страну к ней, тайком вывозишь ее из пока за вами гонится ее бывший партнер.