Headcanon facts #3
Muggle experience.
Since she was little, Luna always found muggle technology interesting. Her grandmother (from her mother’s side) was a muggle and Luna used to visit her often when she was young. Her favorite things to do were to watch TV and drive her grandma’s car.
Yep. A car.
Luna’s grandma let her drive for the first time when she was only 8 and since then she kept practicing, until the time she went to Hogwarts.
For her 14th birthday, her mother bought her a car (without her father’s knowing), but Luna only got to use it for the first time after she got home when year 4 was over. Luna called her car “Oliver” and spent that summer (she eventually named- “The Summer of Muggles”) traveling around the UK. The car has magical protection around it that prevents cops from approaching it.
“Oliver” - Ford Escort MK1, 1973 model.
Luna was a fan of old TV shows, especially cartoons (she was a kid, after all), and even called her owl after Charlie Brown. In her room, she has an old TV (non-functional) and a stereo.
Due to her knowledge of muggle culture and rules, she didn’t take Muggle Studies, because she found it redundant.