God, I really wish the movies would have let us have Madge...

I mean, I understand why they decided to cut her out, but at the same time... I don't know, despite the few scenes we had of her in the first two books, I feel like she could have contributed a lot to the movies as a supporting character. I grew very fond of her when I read THG and CF. And I think her story would become much more important with the release of SotR, considering we'll meet her aunt and mother.

I remember a fanfic I read once where she survived the bombing of 12. I don't remember exactly how it all went, but I think she had been picking strawberries in the woods at the time or something, or going to visit the Everdeens in The Seam, and had managed to escape the District but not in the same group as Gale, but in the opposite direction, south, arriving (malnourished and quite weak) in District 8. There she would recover and start working at the hospital that Katniss and Gale visit in MP1, and after the bombing of the hospital Katniss would take her with them to 13, and she would have a bit of a closer dynamic with her again, than she had before.

I don't know, I think the movies could have given her something more to do, if they wanted to. They did with Effie in Mockingjay, after all. I can see Madge being part of the group that helps heal Gale after he's whipped in the square, I can see her taking the place of Prim/Delly in Mockingjay P2, being the one who goes into Peeta's room after he's rescued from the Capitol. I could even see her taking the place of Sae and her granddaughter being the one to take care of Katniss when she's in a near-vegetative state in 12, after the war.

She's a character that had so much potential to be a good supporting character, Cinna-style, and she just wasn't given the chance to appear ToT.