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Feminist Cloud Cuckoo Lander? Why I love Luna Lovegood

Alrighty... so I'm sure this won't be the last time we talk about Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series on here... but I just have to kind of mention why I like this type of character so very much.

Here  is a video from the Super Carlin Brothers that explains this definition. Basically it is a Wacky character that isn't Wacky because they're stupid or wrong... they're wacky because the way they see the story is different than how the rest of the characters see the story. They're usually very intelligent... they just seem like they're a little bit off.

Luna Lovegood is maybe the best feminist definition I can think of for this. Because JK Rowling did really need the comic relief as the series was getting darker. Luna Lovegood first showed up in The Order of The Phoenix- after Cederick had died. She's the only other person at the time that could see the Thestrals... and that made Harry feel like he was crazy because he thought Luna was crazy... but then he could understand her better and see that she was not crazy. She was an intelligent witch that had seen a lot and she knew a lot about the Wizarding World that Harry didn't know about. It was interesting to see... it would have probably been easier for JK Rowling to just make her a dumb blonde character for comic relief... but she didn't do that. She had her as a very intelligent Ravenclaw that just looked at things a little bit differently than Harry or Hermione.

Another example would be Dory. It would have been easy to write her as a dumb fish that didn't really know where she was going or anything... but they actually made her a really smart fish. She's the one that helps Marlin and Nemo get back home... and she does kind of get them lost sometimes...but in the end- she helps everyone and gets her own movie because of it!

I think that's all I want to say about this... but these characters do mean a lot to me because it is easy to just see a female character and think that they're dumb... but this shows that there is a lot of depth to these characters and it makes them a little bit more realistic and likable in my opinion.

Byeee!
-Shannon

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