Davis Lovegood and Sylvia Greengrass became acquainted in their sixth year at
Hogwarts when upon realizing he had only received a single OWL in
astronomy, Davis desperately needed tutoring to in order to raise his
marks to not be the laughing stock of Ravenclaw. He turned to Sylvia, a
Slytherin and the most promising astronomy student in his year for help.
Feeling an unlikely surge of sympathy for the Ravenclaw, Sylvia agreed
to tutor him. After many nights in the astronomy tower, love blossomed
between the unlikely pair. Because she was from a high standing
pureblood family and he from Muggle parentage, they kept their
relationship a secret for over two years until they were married a few
months after their Hogwarts graduation. When it became too much to hide,
Sylvia and Davis ran away to escape the fury of her family by marrying a
muggle-born and denying the betrothed marriage that had been arranged
for her from birth. They moved to a remote Muggle town in Wales to hide
from her parents and live in peace. Two years after their marriage they
had their first and only child. They named her Luna, after the Moon,
which had brought them together so many years before. The first 9 years
of Luna's life were happy ones. She could want for nothing, her parents
lavished her with attention and did their best to provide whatever she
could want. They were thrilled when she showed promising magical skills
at a very young age. Luna yearned for knowledge, and went to great
lengths to quench her thirst for it. She would spy on her parents: she
learned of the fantastic beasts and government conspiracies by listening
in on her father's business calls with "The Quibbler" and became
proficient in potions by watching her mother concoct beauty potions that
sold quite well in Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley. One day while Sylvia was
concocting a hair straightening charm when men in black robes entered
her house. Luna, who had been hiding in her mother's broom closet,
watched them and heard them telling her mother she had to leave her
'mudblood' husband for a pureblood suitor she had been betrothed to
years earlier. When her mother refused, one of them shouted, 'Avada
Kadavra' and her mother stopped breathing and before Luna could utter a
word, the men in black dissapperated into thin air. Luna watched her
mother die. Not wanting to call attention to his wife's sudden death and
put his daughter in danger, Davis denied any knowledge of Death Eater
involvement and blamed it on one of her spells going awry. The father
and daughter moved back to England, into a small cottage in Ottery St.
Catchpole, where the two of them kept to themselves, and became
extremely close. Davis hoped to keep a low profile until Luna could
attend Hogwarts, where he knew she would be safe.
Luna became somewhat of an outcast at school. The beliefs that her father and her
had shared seemed strange to her fellow classmates, who had taken to
calling her 'Loony' behind her back. Luna let people's comments roll
right off her back, she had learned growing up how amuse herself, so
that friends were more of a luxury than a necessity. She spent a lot of
her time reading, and became somewhat of a people watcher. She seemed to
know a lot about people, but people rarely took the time to learn about
her. Her received very high marks in school and made her father very
proud.
When the war came, Luna took to the side of Light, though she kept her reasons
why to herself. She learned to defend herself in DADA lessons, and
through Dumbledore's Army, and her stand against
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named made her father very proud, until Ottery St.
Catchpole was overtaken by The Dark Lord's forces and her father
disappeared in the summer before her 6th year.
When the war ended, she had no where to go. She took up a position in her
father's old newspaper (which had been floundering after his
disappearance) as a copy editor and reporter. Though happy in her work,
she feels there is something great in store for herself in the future,
if someone would give her the chance.