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The Magic Begins
↳ A Character You Feel the Need to Defend: Lavender Brown

R.I.P. crazy girl.

Well if everything you got about Lavender is that she was “crazy” maybe you’re not that allowed to say “R.I.P.” about her. Just because she didn’t fit your Hermione mold doesn’t mean she was crazy, which is an awfully charged word. 

Lavender’s only crime was to be a normal teenager. No massive intellect, but she wasn’t stupid either (contrary to what Jo Rowling Hermione thinks, liking Divination doesn’t make you a lost cause); she had a boyfriend whom she was maybe a bit too fond of but that doesn’t mean she was “clingy” because as much as I love Ron you have to admit he messed her up badly; actually braver than most of her peers character because Dumbledore’s Army and stuff (like, you know, being in the Battle of Hogwarts as well).

Lavender I’m sorry you got to be so badly treated by your creator (seriously, the fact that Hermione gets rid of Greyback for her used to please me until I realised it implies that you’d have to be a Hermione to be a superior girl rather than a Lavender, whatever that means). And I’m sorry that for most fans you’ll always be a “crazy girl”.

OP I’m sorry for hijacking your post but my rant didn’t fit in the tag.

^^^^^Perfect commentary is perfect

And can we not forget that she did for Ron what Hermione couldn’t/didn’t; she gave him confidence. Made him feel wanted and appreciated. While Hermione spent HBP bringing Ron down. (Even though she was technically right, rather than make a general  that quidditch practice would get better, she signaled Ron out as the person making it bad. Saying he only played well because of the lucky potion, and other I can’t think of right now.) Lavender was the one encouraging  him.