I actually can’t think of any fics like that. However, I do have a fic in the pipeline about that very topic. I can tag you in the post when I publish it, if you like?
Thanks for the ask, @warriorlid14! Sorry it took so long for me to respond.
@ronandhappiness Nothing’s wrong with Lavender. The problem I have is with the way JK Rowling framed Lavender and Ron’s relationship within the narrative.
In my opinion, JK Rowling had a really messed-up idea about Lavender’s characterisation, and it effected the way she framed the Lavender/Ron relationship in HBP. I’ve discussed this before with mutuals, but Rowling does seem to have a problem with ‘girly’ girls. Lavender gets a pretty raw deal from Rowling just because she engages in activities considered traditionally-feminine. Since Rowling has more respect for Luna as a character, a possible relationship between Luna and Ron would be treated with more respect. It would be less framed as ‘two teenagers snogging in the broom cupboard’ and more ‘two people who appreciate and support each-other’. At least, that’s what I think.
It would also be more of a lesson for Hermione about being more appreciative of Ron. Luna’s way of appreciating Ron was the direct opposite of Hermione; based more on unabashedly showing her appreciation for Ron, and less on ‘I can’t show Ron how much I like, otherwise he’ll suspect I fancy him’.
Hope that helps clear up my thoughts on the matter. 🙂
Aro Lavender doing everything that she’s been told that she should do in a romantic relationship like give him pet names and want to be around him constantly, even if it makes her uncomfortable. Because that’s what she’s supposed to do. Aro Lavender not being able to talk to her girl friends about how she’s feeling because she’s supposed to be happy, because she’s in a relationship. That’s what she’s been told her entire life.
Aro Lavender finally feeling like she can be herself once she’s single again.
Sure! I have A LOT of things that I would’ve changed/tweaked about HP (More Hinny interaction, Ron and Harry would go to the YB together, Percy/Oliver would be canon, Cho Chang would be treated better, Ron’s chess skills would not be forgotten, etc etc) but if I were to make ONE change, I would rewrite the entire Lavender/Ron/Hermione thing. I wouldn’t get rid of it, but I’d rewrite it.
Lavender wouldn’t be treated like the “Other Girl.” In fact, she’d be using Ron as her beard to hide her feelings for Parvati. Ron would not be portrayed as the bad guy for dating someone else. And Hermione would pay for setting those wretched birds on Ron. She’d express remorse (have a “oh shit what have I done” reaction instead of a “take that bitch you deserved it” reaction.) She’d be punished (maybe her prefect badge could be confiscated or something.) Then, she’d learn that she was wrong, admit her mistakes, and apologize to Ron.
2. Rejoins the D.A. under the Carrows, and ends up hiding from the Carrows in the Room of Requirement
3. Fights (and nearly dies) in the final battle
4. Stays behind to help round up the skrewts (along with the trio, Seamus, and Dean) while the rest of the class hides in Hagrid’s cabin.
5. Visits Trelawney regularly after she’s fired
6. Never once says a cruel word to Hermione or laughs at her expense
But no, let’s just keep thinking of her as a frivolous shallow bully who cares more about her shoes then she does about Voldemort.
Lavender gets a lot of hate. And I know a lot if it is because she goes out with Ron, but I just can’t hate the girl.
For one, she may not have been the first girl to realize how wonderful Ron is, but she was the first one to show him how wonderful she thought he was. I can’t fault a girl for falling for Ronald Weasley, seeing a chance and taking it. Carpe fucking diem.
There’s that and the fact that she’s a teenaged girl. A teenaged girl whose best friend is considered the prettiest girl in their year (with her twin). Her other roommate is the smartest girl in their year, (both of which bagged a Triwizard Champion for dates to the yule ball), has to have felt like the bottom of the Gryffindor girls totempole. So when she’s the first of the three to get a serious boyfriend, I can’t blame her for flaunting it.
Here’s the tea. The Lavender Business reads as super gross in the books, but y’know what? Teenagers making out is super gross yo. (Sorry, teenagers, but it’s true.) Plus it’s from Harry’s PoV, and let’s face it, Lavender’s sinking Harry’s ship. Plus she’s pulling a serious Yoko Ono on Harry’s band–all of a sudden Harry can’t hang out with Ron without Lavender showing up! And Ron and Hermione aren’t talking! And it’s a lot easier for Harry to blame Lavender, who he’s never cared much about, than to blame his two best friends for being idiots to each other.
But y’know what? Just because Harry doesn’t like Lavender, doesn’t mean she’s done anything wrong. It doesn’t mean she’s bad, or that we have to not like her.
The Lavender Business is gross, but frankly, nobody was in the wrong there (except maybe Hermione, who went too far with the birds). Ron had every right to kiss a girl that was actually into him. Lavender had every right to be into Ron, and actually make her move, too.
Literally the only thing that anyone did wrong was Ron delaying breaking up with Lavender after he decided he wasn’t really into her, and that’s the kind of totally-forgivable mistake that teenagers make all the f***ing time. If anyone deserves our sympathy there, it’s Lavender herself.
Lavender doesn’t have to be an amazing bad-a** to be “forgiven,” because she didn’t do anything wrong. Of course she is, in fact, pretty d**n impressive: Dumbledore’s Army fifth and seventh years, fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, Order of Merlin almost certainly. Assuming she can’t be because she also has “feminine” tastes and interests? A symptom of a mindset that it seems like maybe, finally, we’re starting to push past as a culture.
The physical aspect of Ron and Lavender’s relationship was described using disgusting imagery. That’s the only reason it was gross. (I’m sure @vivithefolle has written a meta for it.) Until one takes off their, “Lavender is a dumb-dumb” glasses, they will perceive their relationship as something repulsive. Dean and Ginny’s makeout session wasn’t written like Ron and Lavender’s kisses. I know that it was in Harry’s POV and Harry is free to dislike Lavender (I disapprove but I can’t do anything about that) but he never described any other kiss with such negative phrases. Did Harry have a crush on Ron that he was so turned off by him kissing Lavender? Like, chill, bro.
I feel the same way. She was black in the first three movies, didnt even show up in GOF and OOTP. and then BAM!! White in HBP. And even worse, the girl that played her when she was black got casted as an effing extra in HBP. They made her white when they found out she played a role in some of the plot. It was completely racist and messed up and it’s one of the things that I will never forgive Rowling allowing to happen.
The casting department cocked that up royally – and I blame Uncle Steve for it.
@diva-gonzo I tagged that wrong. I mean as in ‘wasn’t Lavender Brown played by a POC in the films prior to HBP?’. Upon checking the HP film wiki, I have since learned she wasn’t (or rather, she didn’t appear in GOF and OOTP at all).
I feel the same way. She was black in the first three movies, didnt even show up in GOF and OOTP. and then BAM!! White in HBP. And even worse, the girl that played her when she was black got casted as an effing extra in HBP. They made her white when they found out she played a role in some of the plot. It was completely racist and messed up and it’s one of the things that I will never forgive Rowling allowing to happen.
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