Nonetheless... someone (possibly you??) said above that you simply don't say a character 'stirred' in the last scene they're mentioned, if you meant for them to die. That's just weird writing and should never get past a half-decent editor.
She stirred, she lived; had she been frozen/still/unmoving/whatever we'd know she's dead.
It's one of those things. Like the Draco Malfoy's Dark Mark debate. I simply cannot see it as ambiguous. The claim is: we didn't see him show us his Mark; therefore, it's possible he doesn't have one.
It's just... his Dark Mark was used as an actual clue that Harry had to solve in order to figure out Voldemort's actual plan for Draco. And Harry was right and Draco's Dark Mark was instrumental to solving this puzzle. It's just not possible to go back from that and claim, after the book ended, that, lol, no, Draco didn't actually have the Mark; the fact that the idea led Harry to the right conclusion was merely an accident.
No, no, no. Not even the author can contradict the obvious implication of the text like that.
(I'm not saying that one can't explore different possibilities in fics. Of course not! Go for it! I'm just saying that the actual text is clear: Lavender is alive; Draco received the Dark Mark. I'm just... PUTTING MY FOOT DOWN, OKAY.)
Also, yes to the Lavender thing being a Hermione character moment, which, if Lavender had died, would become pointless.
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Date: 2013-08-22 09:22 pm (UTC)Nonetheless... someone (possibly you??) said above that you simply don't say a character 'stirred' in the last scene they're mentioned, if you meant for them to die. That's just weird writing and should never get past a half-decent editor.
She stirred, she lived; had she been frozen/still/unmoving/whatever we'd know she's dead.
It's one of those things. Like the Draco Malfoy's Dark Mark debate. I simply cannot see it as ambiguous. The claim is: we didn't see him show us his Mark; therefore, it's possible he doesn't have one.
It's just... his Dark Mark was used as an actual clue that Harry had to solve in order to figure out Voldemort's actual plan for Draco. And Harry was right and Draco's Dark Mark was instrumental to solving this puzzle. It's just not possible to go back from that and claim, after the book ended, that, lol, no, Draco didn't actually have the Mark; the fact that the idea led Harry to the right conclusion was merely an accident.
No, no, no. Not even the author can contradict the obvious implication of the text like that.
(I'm not saying that one can't explore different possibilities in fics. Of course not! Go for it! I'm just saying that the actual text is clear: Lavender is alive; Draco received the Dark Mark. I'm just... PUTTING MY FOOT DOWN, OKAY.)
Also, yes to the Lavender thing being a Hermione character moment, which, if Lavender had died, would become pointless.