Ginny/Luna
| Pairing | |
|---|---|
| Pairing: | Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood |
| Alternative name(s): | Linny, Lunny, Ginuna, Guna, Ginny/Luna, G/L, GW/LL, S.S. Dreamy Redhead |
| Gender category: | femslash, f/f |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| Canonical?: | no |
| Prevalence: | common (popular for femslash) |
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Ginny/Luna is a fanon Harry Potter femslash pairing involving the characters of Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood.
Canon
Luna and Ginny were in the same year at Hogwarts, though in different houses; Ginny was in Gryffindor whereas Luna was in Ravenclaw. Ginny seemed to find Luna rather peculiar, as she first referred to Luna as "Loony Lovegood" (though in an affectionate way). The two were very friendly, as Ginny led Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom into her train compartment in 1995, conversing politely with her.
Luna became one of Ginny's best friends through Dumbledore's Army, and Ginny began telling others not to call Luna "Loony," prompting Luna to randomly state during her Quidditch commentary that Ginny was nice and she liked her. Along with Neville, Luna and Ginny led the re-formed Dumbledore's Army while Hogwarts was under Voldemort's control. Ginny was also one of the five portraits—along with Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville—that Luna painted and hung from her bedroom ceiling, with the word "friends" joining them together in gold writing.[1]
Fandom
The ship gained interest after the publication of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2003, in which Luna was first introduced. Madam Hooch's Broom Closet writes of the pairing shortly after the release of Order of the Phoenix:
The first big f/f pairing to come from the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Who says Ginny's cheerful antics with boys weren't just a cover-up? And, perhaps more importantly, they'd be very pretty together. In any case, this pairing is very hot at the moment.[2]
The "SS Dreamy Redhead" thread was started on FictionAlley Park's SCUSA forum in June 2003.[3] In 2006, Ginny/Luna was the first femslash pairing to be featured in an article on MuggleNet.[4]
Prevalence
Ginny/Luna is a popular femslash pairing in the Harry Potter fandom, although femslash in general in much less common than het or slash.
Ginny/Luna is the third most popular pairing after Hermione/Ginny and Hermione/Fleur on hp_girlslash, a LiveJournal community founded in March 2003.[5]
On Archive of Our Own, founded in 2008, it is the most popular HP femslash ship.[6] It is the second most popular pairing for Ginny Weasley overall on AO3, after only the canonical Harry/Ginny and is the most popular pairing for Luna Lovegood.[7] Ginny/Luna have also been within the top 100 femslash pairings on AO3 since 2015, ranking 58th in 2015,[8] 63rd in 2016,[9] and 48th in 2017.[10]
Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Girls with Short Hair Who Play Quidditch by azurish
- The Swift by centreoftheselights
- Grazed Knees by montparnasse
Meta
- Why Ginny/Luna? by Niu (Niuserre) on Nail the Fins (also posted to Girl Talk, archived here; written c. 2004)
- New Than New by Theresa, published June 2006 at MuggleNet[11]
Fanart
- favourite jocknerd romance: ginny and luna by sadfishkid
- It’s spring. by boaillustration
- @well-done-draco asked for linny! I hope you like it! <3 by froekenpest
- Mrs & Mrs Lovegood by alleviate-the-chaos
- linny: made of freckles and dreamers by galpisces
- “someone please draw tomboy-ish skater girl Ginny Weasley and her dreamy sweater-pawed girlfriend Luna Lovegood PLEASE”, Archived version by tasmanicus
- gf bonding !!!! by rasqberre
- Pretty view ☀️ by carolsdrawing
Filk
Art Gallery
Fannish Links & Resources
- Works tagged Ginny/Luna at Archive of Our Own
- Works marked Ginny/Luna and Ginny & Luna at FanFiction.Net
- Works marked Ginny/Luna (G/Luna) at FictionAlley
- Ginny/Luna at UnknowableWiki
- Nail the Fins, a Ginny/Luna fanlisting and resource site (Wayback)
- Cool Fire, a Ginny/Luna fanlisting (defunct)
- ginnyxluna, a LiveJournal community
- SS Dreamy Redhead thread at FictionAlley Park
- List of Ginny/Luna fics at FictionAlley Park
- Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood memories and p: ginny weasley/luna lovegood tag at Crack Broom
- Ginny/Luna memories and pairing: ginny/luna tag at hp_girlslash
- Luna-x-Ginny-Love, a DeviantArt group
References
- ^ Luna Lovegood relationships - harry potter wiki
- ^ Madam Hooch's Broom Closet - Femmeslash Ships, archived 24 July 2003.
- ^ OOTP Ship - SS Dreamy Redhead (Luna/Ginny)
- ^ Madam Puddifoot’s: Newer than New, Mugglenet, Published June 15, 2006.
- ^ According to the hp_girlslash community tags. Tags were introduced on LiveJournal in June 2005, but were added to older posts in the community. As of 17 October 2016, there are 238 posts tagged Ginny/Luna, compared to 486 posts tagged Ginny/Hermione, 331 posts tagged Fleur/Hermione.
- ^ Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley tag at AO3, 894 works as of 26 February 2018. Compare 421 works tagged Hermione/Ginny, 418 works tagged Hermione/Pansy, 272 works tagged Hermione/Luna and 196 works tagged Hermione/Fleur.
- ^ As of 26 February 2018, there are 894 works tagged Hermione/Fleur and 5595 works tagged Harry/Ginny on AO3.
- ^ Top 100 F/F pairings in 2015 by centrumlumina
- ^ Top 100 F/F pairings in 2016
- ^ AO3 Ship Stats, Top 100 F/F pairings in 2017
- ^ Original link, archived 04 November 2006 by the Wayback Machine.