Harry Potter - Daphne/Lavender - The girl who dances on the wind

[killing_kurare]

Title: The girl who dances on the wind
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Daphne/Lavender
Word Count: 250
Rating: G
Warning: -
Challenge/Prompt: femslash100, #482: alien
Challenge/Prompt: falling forever ficathon, red like fire was the day I met you / I tell you now there are no regrets






Daphne remembers the first time she ever saw Lavender. Like, really saw her.
She had been out for a walk, a windy yet beautiful day, and had strolled over a meadow, enjoying the silence and the nature around her until the sun went down and set the sky on fire. She stood there and looked at the crimson horizon, how the trees were merely black silhouettes swaying softly in the wind, when another movement caught her eye. It was a girl with long wavy hair blowing in the wind, twirling around and jumping up and down like she wanted to fly away. Daphne couldn’t take her eyes of that strange girl, black against red; who was she? What was she? A goddess, a fairy, an alien apparition?

The only thing Daphne was sure off: She wanted to solve this secret.

And this she did. She got to know Lavender Brown, got to know the goddess, the fairy, the alien inside of the other girl, so unlike anything Daphne had ever known.

And she regrets nothing she ever did for Lavender: not leaving her “happy” home, not leaving her parents who just couldn’t (didn’t want to) understand the choice her daughter had made, not abandoning her heritage. Nothing.

Everything was worth spending her life with the girl who danced on the wind against a sky red as fire.

“What are you thinking?” Lavender asks now as Daphne smiles absent-mindedly.

“Nothing. Just how I don’t regret a thing.”

And Lavender returns the smile, happy as ever.

Comments

[sylvesha.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely lovely, and Daphne's resolve and the decisions she makes are excellent. I've not read a lot of fic with Lavender that treated her particularly well, and this makes a nice change. =D

[killing-kurare.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm very happy you liked it :D

Really? Me and some friends love Lavender and write a lot of good stuff about her, I didn't know she wasn't that popular among other authors ^^' Okay, sometimes I'm not too nice to the poor girl either, but that's because I can be a horrible person and not because I hate her xD

Anyway, thanks again for the nice comment :D

[sylvesha.livejournal.com]

I think part of is that Hermione was my gateway-drug to the HP-verse, and a lot of stuff, people seem to like doing that "only one smart/clever/ok/not obnoxious" girl thing with her, so all other girls sort of fail by comparison (which is highly annoying). Possibly with some over-identification with the "smart girl who was mocked by the not-as-smart-girls" going on.

Anyway, I'm going to have to track down more fic with her in it now.

[killing-kurare.livejournal.com]

Mh, I like Hermione in the books, but fanfictions with her never really got to me. Maybe because I don't like how other people write her, or maybe because of several stereotypes they like to use when it comes to her character (just like the one you described).
Though I'm more fond of minor characters in general, as Lavender and Pansy :D