User blog comment:Itzxlucy/Harry Potter Ships/@comment-4119356-20110718013801/@comment-3276102-20110723034328

Funny thing ... Whenever anybody mentions Neville and Hannah getting married, it makes me think of this one line from a Harry Potter fan fiction story. Neville was writing a love letter to Hannah, and Draco Malfoy lamented :

"A Longbottom and a Hufflepuff ... Won't someone think of the children?!"

Well, it was Draco Malfoy. What do you expect?

I think I remember reading that J.K. Rowling had originally planned to reveal a lot more about the futures of her characters in the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but ultimately decided to pare it down. I guess all that information made that last chapter a bit unwieldy.

But she did reveal, in interviews after the book was released, that Hannah became the landlady of the Leaky Cauldron, and she married Neville. I don't believe there was ever any Neville/Hannah interaction in the books. I think the audience is meant to assume that their romantic relationship developed either "off camera" (so to speak) or after they left Hogwart's.

You know, I really liked the future that Rowling crafted for Luna (and I wish she had been able to include it in the book). For those who might not know, Luna became the wizarding world's equivalent of a naturalist, studying wild animals in their natural habitats.

She became quite famous for discovering species of animals that were previously thought to be mythical ... although she was eventually forced to admit that Crumple-Horned Snorkacks really did not exist.

I thought that was perfect for Luna. :)