tathrin:

I just realized that Luna Lovegood’s 17th birthday happened while she was imprisoned at Malfoy Manor.

Now I have this horrifying sad image of a cheerful Luna singing happy birthday to herself on the morning of February 13th and when Ollivander asks her what she’s doing she explains that her daddy always sends her a singing letter by owl post at breakfast on her birthday but she doesn’t think the owl can get to her in the cellar, so she’s singing it to herself instead.

And she smiles quite peaceably and tells him, “I’m seventeen now, by the way. That’s rather special, don’t you think? Being seventeen?” and a stricken Ollivander assures her that it is and he forces a smile and leaves her there humming to herself all alone in that dark cellar on her seventeenth birthday.