Lavender Brown

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[Poll #1879931]

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Not that I actually care you understand...

[janey-p.livejournal.com]

Heh, I actually never read or watched the last book/movie. All I know about it was from summaries and fanfics, so whatever I know is probably not all that accurate.
Seems like I need to educate myself ASAP. ;)
Other than that, I've never paid her much attention as soon as it became clear she wouldn't be a permanent fixture in Ron's life. :D
So, without actually clicking an option in the poll and in favor of "the less war casualties the better" I say she should survive. ;)

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

"'No!' shrieked Hermione, and with a deafening blast from her wand Fenrir Greyback was thrown backward from the feebly stirring body of Lavender Brown."

I reckon if JKR had wanted to indicate she was killed with certainty she would have said something like "still and dead" instead of "feebly stirring".

[takarai-karin.livejournal.com]

I went with 'lived', because the less dead kids there is, the better.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Filmverse: Dead. Bookverse: A case can be made for dead, but I think JKR would have listed her among the dead if she were.

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

As I said, the Harry Potter Lexicon says she lives, and I'd trust it as a resource more than the Wiki.

[bk7brokemybrain.livejournal.com]

She was attacked/slobbered over by Greyback at the very least in addition to her fall. In the movie, they also showed that shot of Trelawny covering a body and saying 'she's dead', so I assumed that was the movie killing off Lavender Brown, one of her favorite students and sycophants.
I'd like to leave it open to her living, though, perhaps with werewolf scars and traits like Bill Weasley. I don't mind a fluffy character dying horribly, but it's nice not to fight canon when you need a classmate alive later.

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

Faith has her alive in a fic and she's my Canoncyclopedia, so I'm going with ALIVE for twenty points, Bob. FINAL ANSWER.

:D

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

Aliiiiiiive! JKR would have mentioned her death if she's dead, I think. Movieverse canon is separate from HP canon to me.

[capitu]

I think she's alive. I've read too many fanfics where she's alive and scarred to change my mind now. Plus, she would have been named among the dead. I'm sure of it. JKR would never do something so ambiguous and leave us with the doubt. Oh wait...

[maevemist.livejournal.com]

I voted for number 3 for the simple reason that I occasionally like to have a visually scared female character live a full and productive life. Having been inflicted with obvious facial scaring my entire life it's nice to have a character find love, acceptance and happiness despite not being a supermodel.

Of course, we still have book Hermione, Pansy and Millicent at the very least to fill that role if Lavender is in fact; dead.

Please excuse my horrendous punctuation. I always feel terribly nervous commenting when I feel proper grammar is a necessity. *blushes and hides*

[inamac.livejournal.com]

It pretty much depends on what I want her to be when I'm writing fic. Fandom seems to have passed up a good opportunity to have a continuing disabled wizard character though. 'Alive and permanently crippled' seems like an interesting alternative.

[shantismurf.livejournal.com]

Alive and a werewolf!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Alive and scarred from her attack I would imagine.

[oncelikeshari.livejournal.com]

I was sure she was dead after I read the book and then everybody else was all 'No, she's not one of the dead'.

I've ticked both boxes, she fell and she was attacked while injured. I read it as Greyback was doing his creepy thing with a dying girl.

For me it was showing that Greyback was so evil he was mauling dead children.

[snegurochka_lee]

My vote is also for alive and wolfy, because fandom NEEDS a wolfy female character to balance all the Remus-and-Bill-eating-raw-meat stuff, and I adore the idea of wolfy!Lavender getting her groove on. :D

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

I spent years thinking that she was turned into a badass werewolf lady because of the Greyback incident. Then again, I could barely see the last pages through my tears. It was all 'He dies! She dies! Everybody dies!'

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

I personally love Lavender (for RP and fandom reasons) and I've always sided with what is written in the book, so to me she lives. That's the last we heard of her, so Amen.

[theodoraleft.livejournal.com]

Definitely alive, because a theme of the book is also about "being saved by your supposed enemies", hence it is Hermione who saves Lavender. Or maybe alive because that's what I want to think and the older I get the more I need happy endings, pathetically.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

People survive falling off balconies, right?? If there's no mention, and really, a year-mate of H/R/Hr who actually had a significant role in one of the books would definitely score a mention.

*whistles*

[sirius-luva.livejournal.com]

As Ron's ex-girlfriend and their year-mate and friend I'm sure JKR would have mentioned her death. Plus, as someone else pointed out, in the book she's feebly stirring versus dead. So yeah, I'm damn sure she's alive, and I like to believe she was alive but seriously wounded in the movie too (though was it her whom Trelawney was covering and declaring dead?).

Odd fact: Lavender Brown is black in the first five movies, then suddenly played by white Jessie Cave in the sixth and seventh. ><