Coda
LUNA LOVEGOOD goes back to Hogwarts for her last year, and to all appearances seems to be doing quite well--good marks, no raging nightmares waking up the one roommate she has left. But she is quiet and subdued. Ginny leaves part way through the year, which makes her even lonelier. Her quasi-lycanthropy is an open secret--the bite is right there, on her face, after all--but there isn't as much fuss as Luna feared there would be. For one thing, it's known she doesn't transform. And for the other, with the loss among the conservative purebloods of so many of their friends and members of their families, as well as the admission to Hogwarts of Muggleborns and older students, the snobbish and intolerant have too much else to think about.
Luna's father never recovers enough to do more than occasionally recognise her for about five seconds, and then he fades out again, and he dies a little over three years from the end of the war. The loss of the last of her immediate family ties her yet more tightly to the Weasleys as an adopted daughter in just about every respect, although she doesn't change her name. She, like Ginny, lives at the Burrow at first after leaving school. She parlays her NEWT 'O's in Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures into a job with a naturalist consortium that makes money by discovering new species of fauna and flora which might be offer as either specimens for wizarding gardens or new, powerful potion or charm spell ingredients. She willingly socialises with her Hogwarts cohort, including those in the Order and the grown Moddey contingent, in a rather quiet way, and she has much to do with Terry growing closer with their friends once Terry finally admits the truth that has been obvious to Luna for years and they become a couple.
Once she and Terry marry and have their two daughters (Rowan and Betony), Luna tapers back first to consulting work that she can do at home, and then to writing and illustrating incredibly fanciful children's books. Many of the delicately sketched quill-and-ink fantastical plants and beasts that appear in her engrossing stories first made their appearances in the margins of the letters that Luna sent to Terry in the years that he was wandering. The books enjoy a modest success, and although Terry and Luna are never exactly wealthy, they are content with what they have.
When they go to Hogwarts, Rowan is eventually sorted into Ravenclaw, and Betony into Hufflepuff. Molly, Alice and Frank hugely enjoy being joint grandparents of their children.
[On the names: Rowan is named for the Rowan tree, which yields prized wand wood due to its reputation for protection, and was noted by Garrick Ollivander to generally produce powerful, hard to break Defensive Charms. Rowan was also noted for its believed disassociation with the Dark Arts. Ollivander, who had a nearly photographic memory when it came to the wands he had sold, could not recall a single instance of a wizard he sold a rowan wand to ever becoming evil or turning to the Dark Arts. Perhaps for these reasons, rowan has become associated with pure-hearted wizards, though Ollivander noted that rowan wands can also match or even outperform others in duels.
Betany is regarded as the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo-Saxons of early medieval Great Britain. Betony has healing properties, and is used in wizarding remedies: dried betony leaves are used in the treatment of mad dog bites.]
Luna's father never recovers enough to do more than occasionally recognise her for about five seconds, and then he fades out again, and he dies a little over three years from the end of the war. The loss of the last of her immediate family ties her yet more tightly to the Weasleys as an adopted daughter in just about every respect, although she doesn't change her name. She, like Ginny, lives at the Burrow at first after leaving school. She parlays her NEWT 'O's in Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures into a job with a naturalist consortium that makes money by discovering new species of fauna and flora which might be offer as either specimens for wizarding gardens or new, powerful potion or charm spell ingredients. She willingly socialises with her Hogwarts cohort, including those in the Order and the grown Moddey contingent, in a rather quiet way, and she has much to do with Terry growing closer with their friends once Terry finally admits the truth that has been obvious to Luna for years and they become a couple.
Once she and Terry marry and have their two daughters (Rowan and Betony), Luna tapers back first to consulting work that she can do at home, and then to writing and illustrating incredibly fanciful children's books. Many of the delicately sketched quill-and-ink fantastical plants and beasts that appear in her engrossing stories first made their appearances in the margins of the letters that Luna sent to Terry in the years that he was wandering. The books enjoy a modest success, and although Terry and Luna are never exactly wealthy, they are content with what they have.
When they go to Hogwarts, Rowan is eventually sorted into Ravenclaw, and Betony into Hufflepuff. Molly, Alice and Frank hugely enjoy being joint grandparents of their children.
[On the names: Rowan is named for the Rowan tree, which yields prized wand wood due to its reputation for protection, and was noted by Garrick Ollivander to generally produce powerful, hard to break Defensive Charms. Rowan was also noted for its believed disassociation with the Dark Arts. Ollivander, who had a nearly photographic memory when it came to the wands he had sold, could not recall a single instance of a wizard he sold a rowan wand to ever becoming evil or turning to the Dark Arts. Perhaps for these reasons, rowan has become associated with pure-hearted wizards, though Ollivander noted that rowan wands can also match or even outperform others in duels.
Betany is regarded as the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo-Saxons of early medieval Great Britain. Betony has healing properties, and is used in wizarding remedies: dried betony leaves are used in the treatment of mad dog bites.]
