Nuna

Nuna is the het ship between Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter fandom.

Canon
They first met on the Hogwarts Express in 1995. Neville was at first apprehensive in entering Luna's compartment. He found her a bit "odd", as she was reading a magazine upside down, believed in the existence of strange mythical creatures, and wore earrings that appeared to be made of radishes. Neville is shy at first, introducing himself as nobody. Instead, Ginny introduces them to each other. Neville tells the compartment about his new plant, the Mimbulus mimbletonia. Luna is curiously interested, and watches as Neville prods the plant, causing it to squirt a substance called Stinksap around the compartment and on the pages of Luna's magazine.

Later that year, Neville and Luna both joined Dumbledore's Army. During the meeting, Luna insisited that Cornelius Fudge has his own army of heliopaths. Neville is confused asking her what heliopaths are, and Luna explains they are "great tall flaming creatures" and insists they are real.

Near the end of the year, Harry has a vision that his godfather, Sirius Black, was being tortured by Lord Voldemort. Luna, Neville and Ginny aim to help the trio in their efforts to save Sirius. They are caught by Umbridge and members of the Inquisitorial Squad, but manage to escape using a variety of hexes and jinxes. They then fly to the Ministry using thestrals. Like Luna, Neville had the ability to see thestrals. Neville fought alongside Luna at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, and the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and the Battle of Hogwarts.

At some point they became very close friends. During Neville's last year at Hogwarts, he, Luna and Ginny re-formed and co-led Dumbledore's Army in order to oppose the Carrows. Neville seemed to have a place in his heart for Luna, and they remained close friends in later life. In Luna's room, she had a painting of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville with the words "friends" written in golden ink connecting them together.

J.K. Rowling
Before the release of Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling posted in the "Rumours" section of her official site addressing a rumour that Luna and Neville might hook up in future books: "I see Neville and Luna as very different kinds of people and while they share a certain isolation within Hogwarts, I don’t think that’s enough to foster true love - friendship, perhaps, although I think that Neville would always find Luna’s wilder flights of fancy alarming."

- JK. Rowling on her official website

However, as time went by Rowling started to "feel a bit of a pull" between the unlikely pair. Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise "felt too neat." In later interviews, Rowling debunked the ship, confirming that Luna married Rolf Scamander and Neville married Hannah Abbott.

Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch has talked about the relationship multiple times. In an interview with US Weekly, she describes them as a 'Wartime Romance', and believes they would have eventually broken up.

"I see it more as a wartime romance. I think it was all the moments. I think everyone’s caught up in the trauma and the idea that they might die, and they were fighting for an honorable cause. They were just like, ‘I quite like you, and let’s see, and maybe we’ll die, and this will be beautiful.’ But I think that ended and then they both survived. And I think they’d probably both realized, you know, this is not quite right. I think Neville is probably a little too down to earth for Luna. He wants to have a stable job at Hogwarts. And Luna is a bit too kooky and out there for him and she wants to go out and travel the world. And their lifestyles just wouldn’t mix. So that’s how I see it."

- Evanna Lynch about Neville and Luna (2021)

Fanon
Nuna is a popular pairing in the Harry Potter fandom. On AO3, it is the most popular ship for Neville and the second most popular for Luna, behind Luna/Ginny.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Luna/Neville on FanFiction.Net

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