Luna Lovegood: Character Study, Part 1

The Real Weird Sisters: A Harry Potter Podcast

Alice Asleson & Martha Krebill

Books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Find out if you're more of a Crockford or a Purkiss on this week's show, as Alice and Martha begin their deep dive into one of the quirkiest main characters of the series! Luna's arc in the fifth book includes radish earrings (sort of), nargles, the Kacky Snorgle, and much better dialogue than the movie.

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0:00.0	Luna love good part one
0:03.2	May I have your attention please
0:08.2	May I have your attention please
0:13.3	Will the real weird sisters please stand up
0:18.0	We're the weird sisters were the real weird sisters all you are the weird sisters to find and up the victors will the real weird sisters please stand up
0:26.1	Please stand up
0:29.0	Hi, and welcome to the real weird sisters. I'm Martha and I'm Alice and today we're here to talk about Luna love good in the fifth book
0:36.7	Well, I hope there's pudding Alice. I'm sorry. I hope there's pudding
0:41.4	Yeah, you have to do your better Luna impression
0:44.2	That's not my Luna impression. That's my avalanche impression of and hot take
0:49.2	There's gonna be some Luna in the fifth movie criticism in this podcast as I was preparing
0:54.7	Some of these scenes I was remembering what she says in the fifth book versus for the fifth movie and I was like
1:00.1	You know what maybe we've been a little too high on the in the movies. Yeah, Luna in the movies is is decent
1:06.9	I think a lot of people love her
1:10.0	So it is gonna be a bit of a hot take, but I I don't know I I think it's maybe not so much avalanches
1:16.9	Maybe you're the writing sure that's usually the case with any criticism of Harry Potter actors
1:22.3	But it's Daniel Radcliffe. It's usually we've taken the lot the lines and we've boiled them down to what they think is the essence of the line
1:30.2	And it's actually only like a time is a bit of what
1:34.2	Right, there was a lot of translation
1:36.2	There was a lot of meaning hidden in the waffle and so we lost that all we were left with just a little bit of syrup and a few crumbs
1:44.1	Right, so anyway, I like I said I don't think it's not if on a lynch is really great
1:50.9	Sometimes she's a little over the top with her Luna portrayal, but I mean that all the times the writing changes who she is in a way that makes her a lot less of a complicated character
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