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

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192385






--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Charla" <vikingwoman at ...> wrote:

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> Charla:
> Hi John, 
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> I would think Lavender ended up with some scars on the neck and would enjoy meat more ..   
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> The one thing I really objected to was the breaking of the Elder wand in the
> movie..  I still see very little point to that in the movie..  The book has
> it returned to Dumbledore grave.  It also preserves the quest for the Deadly
> Hallows in the future..by others.
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> I just wish Jo would write more books for the young Potters and Weasleys to be in..  
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>      Kind Wishes,
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>          Charla
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Hi Charla, thanks for the reply.
That is certainly one possibility, that she took on some werewolf traits but never fully became one, sadly though remaining badly scarred by Greyback's attack.

Several fan fics suggest this and exploit that plot idea and some are excellent. Indeed two of my own tales use that 'version' of Lavender (neither of which I'm very satisfied with by the way, perhaps my heart just isn't in writing about a Lavender Brown that is just a scarred girl with a liking for raw meat).

For the reasons I explained in other posts to have her be a 'full' werewolf gives much more imagination room' to write about her character post war. That's the Lavender that I love to read and write about, not least because she can severely kick some Dark Wizard bottom in her wolf form.;o)

Please don't get me started again Charla about Steve Kloves and his godawful screenplay for DH2! Oh, okay then lets talk about the pile of poo, major screw-up or what? :o)

At least the majority of it, the part set after the dragon escape from Gringotts. Once the trio escape from Bellatrix's vault it starts to go weird and pretty soon it's in a galaxy far far away from anything Jo ever wrote! :o(

So much is rewritten, subtracted, added, relocated and messed about with in general compared to the book text it is almost unrecognisable!

As I said earlier despite it all there are actually some bits of the film I like and to mention another, that being the encounter between Harry and Helena Ravenclaw's ghost, I must admit that scene I liked a lot.  Indeed I liked Helena as a character so much I was inspired to write The Ghost and the Machine, a post Battle and post Hogwarts reconstruction story that features her moving on into a far happier stage of her ghostly 'afterlife'. 

But as to the ending of the 'main story', that being the snapping of the Elder Wand, it was crass and empty headed, simplistic and weak in the extreme. To sum it up in one word without using the rude ones that might suit it better let's just say it is Pathetic! :o(

To deal directly with the points in your post Charla, I fully agreed with you when you wrote....

"The one thing I really objected to was the breaking of the Elder wand in the movie..  I still see very little point to that in the movie."

Amen to that I say, as I said above it was plain stupid and a major anticlimax. :o(

Also I completely agree whith you when you wrote....

"The book has it returned to Dumbledore grave.  It also preserves the quest for the Deadly Hallows in the future..by others."

A well made and very true point. Indeed at present an American fan fiction author friend of mine has a fine story set a thousand years post the events in the books. The plot of which revolves around that very idea, featuring a young female descendant of Harry who whilst at Hogwarts is forced into battling to find and either assume control over or destroy the Hallows, to prevent them being misused by her own evil mother. If you are interested in reading it then yet again the story is posted online at the same mega Fanfiction site I post on and is called All That Once Was Lost. It can be found via the website's story search feature.

Well that's enough trashing DH2, or the main film at least, what about the Epilogue do I hear asked? ;o)

As to that final bit, well it is what it is, pretty 'canon', no surprises and fairly well done. As well at least as it is possible to do it using young actors made up to look much older, which would always have been a hard trick to pull off. At least they tried and it almost works. :o)

Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).