The Eleven Lies of Luna Lovegood
Lie # 1: It's okay daddy, I know it's going to be fine.
It wasn't okay. It was never, ever okay. Because her mother was dead. Luna sobbed into her pillow the night she told Harry that her mother had died. He was the first person she'd ever told. She fed the Thestrals because they made her feel closer to her mother. She'd stayed awake for so many nights, the images flashing before her eyes. The explosion, the white light, her cries of 'Mommy?' were the only things in her nightmares.
When she'd watched the casket lowered into the ground, she admitted it to herself. I love my mother, my Mother is dead. Gone. I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. I still do. I love my mother, my mother is dead… were her only thoughts. For weeks afterwards, she didn't speak. Luna never knew if it was ever going to be okay. All she knew, was that she had to be kind and brave and strong, just like her mother. And so Luna Lovegood made it so.
She never raised her voice, and she loved with every fiber of her being, she was just, and never threw an unkind word. Because she loved her mother, and her mother was dead. And that was how to make it okay.
Okay, new story! Luna Lovegood is my favorite character. She's complex, and kind, but you never know what's going on in her head. Has she ever done wrong, really? So these are the eleven lies of Luna Lovegood. Beginning with Numero Uno. I've always wondered what Luna did when her mother died. But it seems very 'Luna' to want to make her proud, no matter what. So that's what she does.