Lavender Brown

### Hair colour

Blonde, more than shoulder-length and curly, sometimes worn in twin pigtails (Film)

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Unnamed father
* Unnamed mother
* Kelly Brown (possible cousin)
* Belinda Brown (possibly)
* Thomas Brown (possibly)

### (non-canonical)

***The Code**** Jeremy Brown (possibly)

***The Girl Who Loved* and *Violence Inherent in the System***

* Constance Brown (possibly)

***Harry Potter: Neko's Mate***

* Braddock Brown (father)

### (non-canonical)

***Harry Potter: Neko's Mate**** Parvati Patil (experimentation) (1992)

***The Power of Seven***

* Seamus Finnigan (boyfriend) (1997-)

## Magical characteristics

### Boggart

One of the following:* Rat
* Rattlesnake
* Bloody eyeball

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

Dumbledore's Army

**Lavender Brown** is a canonical pure-blood witch and Hogwarts student in Harry's year; she was sorted into Gryffindor, joined Dumbledore's Army and died during the Battle of Hogwarts. She was a close friend of Parvati Patil, with whom she could often be seen gossiping. In her sixth year she started flirting with Ron Weasley and they eventually began dating (and snogging in public), but she broke up with him after about two months because she thought he was more interested in Hermione than in her.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Lavender Brown** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Lavender went to the 1994 Yule Ball with Seamus Finnigan, but there is nothing indicating that they were more than friends. In her sixth year, she attended N.E.W.T.-level classes in (at least) Charms, Transfiguration and Defence Against the Dark Arts, indicating that she had received high O.W.L. scores in these subjects; given her enthusiasm for Divination and close relationship with Professor Trelawney, it may well be that she took that class at N.E.W.T. level as well.

In the early films, her role was seen as a background character and not specifically cast; thus she is played by different actresses with different looks (incidentally, both being black). This caused some controversy when the role was cast as white in the sixth film, where Lavender takes on a significant role, but the book says that her hands could not be distinguished from Ron's (and neither this fact nor her future significance had been known when the role was assigned for the early films).

## Non-canonical information

* In *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, it is said that Brown is a Noble House with a seat on the Wizengamot; as such, Lavender is invited to most, if not all, the big Ministry of Magic parties. Her father, Braddock Brown, is a member of the Hogwarts Board of Governors. During 1992 she and Parvati Patil experiment with snogging each other and Parvati wants to find a husband they can share, preferably within the Great Alliance.

* In *The Power of Seven*, part of the reason she breaks up with Ron is that she is developing feelings for Seamus Finnigan. She does not take part in the final battle against Voldemort, which here takes place during the summer of 1997, and so presumably survives the war.

* In *Violence Inherent in the System*, after Ginny accepts that Harry is not, and never will be, romantically interested in her, Lavender takes over her role as *High Priestess* of the Harry James Potter is Dreamy Fan Club.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 22
3. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 28*
4. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 34
5. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 39
6. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 26
7. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 78
8. ↑ *Violence Inherent in the System*, Chapter 19