Lavender Brown, dead or alive? If alive is she a now a werewolf?

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192384

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Margaret Dean <margdean56 at ...> wrote:
>
> My answer would be yes, she becomes a werewolf.  Why?  Because that
> has far more story possibilities than the other alternatives,
> that's why!  :)


Hi Margret, thank you for your post.
Yes, I tend to agree, there are only so many variations on a 'death scene' for a book/film character that fan writers can create before repetition sets in. Indeed in certain genres this is becoming something of a problem. In particular I am thinking of Hunger Games fan fics, which seem to cluster around just a handful of book/movie events. Prime ones being the deaths of Rue, Clove, Foxface, and to a lesser extent Prim.

It's got to the point where I feel that if I read another 'identikit' story about poor little Rue's murder, (tragic and emotional as it is), my eyeballs will explode! :o)

Similarly Clove's death scene is also far to 'overwritten' and these events I now feel are virtually 'mined out'. :o(

That said a few months back I wrote a Clove's death story just to see if a new 'angle' was even still possible. It is but in order to get the new perspective I 'cheated', so as not to make the story the same as a hundred or more others.

How did you 'cheat' do I hear you ask? Well that's my secret and in any case is hard to explain the twist, I'd need to repost the whole story here to show what I did.  But if you look up my profile's story list on a certain mega huge fan fiction site you'll find out by reading the story listed there called The Reawakening. ;o)

As to the HP character who after all is central to this thread, my darling Lavender Brown, certainly there are many stories that can and have been written about her non canon 'death' at the Battle of Hogwarts, many of which are very good, but as I said above and as you pointed out the scope for writers to be creative is far wider if one postulates that she survived, werewolf or not.

In my previous posts on this thread I mentioned some stories regarding the later possibility, that she survived but became a werewolf and the writers whose work goes along those lines that I praised have both written several amazing tales about her.

For Lavender to survive without becoming a werewolf, maybe in a condition similar to that of Bill Weasley is all well and good,indeed I've read several somewhat 'angsty' tales about this once beautiful but now scarred version of Lavender after the Battle. But though several such tales are often very good, once again the scope to write such stories is a lot more limited I feel and I therefore agree with your comment.

That's why I prefer to think of this favourite character of mine as alive and well, if perhaps a little furrier once a month than she used to be. :o)

Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).