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diff --git a/literature/note_on_luna.rst b/literature/note_on_luna.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60e93fe --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/note_on_luna.rst @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Note on Luna +############ + +:date: 2020-04-07T09:39:17 +:category: literature +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit + +(my comments on `the thread`_ “Best Luna fics” by +`u/jasoneill23`_) + +.. _`the thread`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/fvrm8y/best_luna_fics/fmkxh45/ + +.. _`u/jasoneill23`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/jasoneill23 + +I like Luna in the `Northumbrian’s stories`_, but there she is +not very central to the story (perhaps, aside from `Yggdrasil by +Northumbrian`_, but it is not his best story). Actually, the +chapter 3 of `Tales of the Battle by Northumbrian`_, which is +from her perspective is really good. + +Pretty good Luna in my opinion is in the series `Nargles and +Charms by Arpad Hunta`_, but for example in otherwise very good +`The Accidental Animagus by White_Squirrel`_, she seems to +be a bit too normal for my taste. + +The problem with her (which JKR never attacked) is how to balance +her looniness with some authentic real person. Either you can +have somebody who is just weird, and not in completely pleasant +way, and unbelievable as a romantic partner, or you loose the +essence of Luna, and she is just normal boring girl. In the JKR +books, she never really gets close and personal with anybody. +Those great utterances like “it was like having friends” work so +well among other things, because she actually never **is** real +friend in sense sharing with others her true herself. We never +see Luna frightened, sad, disappointed or in love, because she +always keeps her perfect crazy poker face. Once we are writing +about Huna (or any situation where she needs to be true and +personal), the author must step up into the unknown: who is the +true Luna behind that facade? + +.. _`Northumbrian’s stories`: + https://archiveofourown.org/series/103340 + +.. _`Yggdrasil by Northumbrian`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/3540968 + +.. _`Tales of the Battle by Northumbrian`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/1615616 + +.. _`Nargles and Charms by Arpad Hunta`: + https://archiveofourown.org/series/29673 + +.. _`The Accidental Animagus by White_Squirrel`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/14078862 |