Olivia Lulu

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A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Olivia Lulu
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde
Age	Adult (deceased)
Film actor	None
1st appearance	The Carnivorous Carnival
V.F.D. alliance	Volatile (she helps anyone)

Olivia (a.k.a. Madame Lulu) is a fictional character from the A Series of Unfortunate Events book series by Lemony Snicket. She appears solely in Book the Ninth: The Carnivorous Carnival. She is technically the ninth guardian of the Baudelaire orphans due to the fact that the Baudelaires go to work for her but their last true legal guardian was the Village of Fowl Devotees.

She is a fraudulent fortune-teller. Her lightning device (operated by reflecting beams of the sunrise) tricks guests into believing in magical lightning. After instructing them to close their eyes, she seeks out the answers from the archival library under her table.

Madame Lulu says she just likes giving people what they want. It is implied, but not explicitly stated, that she is a member of V.F.D. Book the Eleventh reveals that she once knew Captain Widdershins. It is strongly implied that she is in love with Count Olaf, earning her the enmity of Olaf's then-girlfriend Esmé Squalor.

Lulu promised the Baudelaires that she wouldn't tell Count Olaf where they were if they took her to the Mortmain Mountains.This place was marked on her map, but Klaus found that it was a coffee stain, but he later said that it might be there to refer to as a secret place, such as the headquarters of VFD. However, she did not keep her promise and Count Olaf captured the Baudelaires.

Esmé Squalor convinces the "freaks" in the Caligari Carnival to murder her by pushing Madame Lulu into the lion pit in exchange for being hired by Count Olaf. She met a sticky end when she fell into the lions' pit along with Olaf's bald assistant.

She has been implied to be a fortune-teller mentioned in a much earlier book who cursed Lemony Snicket when a policeman tripped Mr. Snicket, causing him to break the crystal ball he was holding. She also states in the book that Olaf promised to give her the Snicket Fortune for the times she helped Olaf. As well, in the final book of the series, it is implied that she is related to one of the people on the island that the Baudelaires are shipwrecked on, a young girl named Friday, and that her real name may be Olivia Caliban, Friday's aunt. She would be the sister of Friday's father.

[edit] Goofs

• When Olivia removes her turbon, Snicket states she had blond hair. But as seen on the cover of the UK edition of the The Carnivorous Carnival, she has black hair.

Preceded by None officially, but possibly Volunteers Fighting Disease or Hal (The Hostile Hospital)

Guardian of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire

Succeeded by Bruce and the Snow Scouts for a short time (The Slippery Slope)