Potter and Friends

 I’m coming clean here. In a post I wrote about lessons about friendships, I left out the line that first sparked the post in the first place! I had just begun re listening to the Harry Potter series and while I hadn’t reached this part yet, I was thinking about Dumbledore’s words about Neville standing up to his friends "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." This sparked the idea of some of the other friend quotes I used in the post, but I completely forgot about the Neville one!! 

Then while doing the dishes, I thought about another Harry Potter friend quote from Luna. Ok, it’s not a quote per se but it is about friends. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Xenophilius Lovegood, Harry enters Luna’s room and finds names written on her wall/ceiling with the words “friends” making up the lettering from their names. 

I love seeing how Neville and Luna develop as characters in the Harry Potter series and love seeing how they become friends with other characters in the books. I have often thought that I would love to see spin off books about them but I’ll settle for what we have for now. 

Harry, Neville, and Luna all have similarities that were not apparent to me until recently. Harry’s  parents died and he was raised by relatives who hated him. Neville’s parents lived but their minds were so addled that he had to be raised by his Gran who loves him, despite being harsh at times. Luna’s mother died and her father seems to have some rather odd ideas, which may or may not have been the result of losing his wife, so Luna is left to develop similar oddities and risks being an outcast and loner for her life. But all three are able to find strength and skill through their experiences at Hogwarts and beyond. Together with Ron, Hermoine, Ginny, and others they form friendships that allow them to save one another and the greater Wizarding World at large. 

Now, I can not say whether the friendships I form will have the same global reach, but as I have written before, the Savior is our friend and with Him as our advocate and friend, our world can and will be changed