Lavender Brown

Lavender Brown is a student at Hogwarts. She is in Harry Potter's year and is also sorted into Gryffindor House. At Hogwarts she becomes good friends with Parvati Patil and the two girls are often seen together and seem to share many of the same interests and character traits, including a keen interest in Divination as well as a fondness for the types of more appealing magical creatures such as unicorns.

Lavender is depicted as a somewhat silly and sentimental girl, which contrasts with the intelligent and practical Hermione Granger. When Lavender and Ron Weasley begin seeing each other in sixth year, Lavender adopts the nickname "Won-Won" for Ron, gives him a chain with the words 'my sweetheart' on it for Christmas, and presses Harry for details of Ron's feelings towards her. Even Lavender's best friend, Parvati, is dismayed at the obsessiveness with which Lavender throws herself into her relationship with Ron, and Ron himself quickly becomes disenchanted and even takes to feigning sleep when Lavender comes to visit him in the school sickroom. Ron is spared the difficult task of breaking up with Lavender when she breaks off with him, convinced that there is something going on between Ron and Hermione.

After Harry announces the return of Lord Voldemort, Lavender (like Seamus Finnigan) initially thinks that Harry is lying, but does join Dumbledore's Army. Lavender attended the Yule Ball with Seamus Finnigan. After Hagrid's attempt to see if Blast-Ended Skrewts hibernate (which they do not) she stayed to help collect the runaways instead of fleeing into the hut like the Slytherins.

Lavender once owned a rabbit named Binky, which was killed by a fox in her third year. This was just another prediction (or guess) of Sybill Trelawney's that came true, which may be a reason why she believes in Professor Trelawny so completely. Lavender and Parvati have a very close relationship to Sybill Trelawney, and both comforted her when she was fired by Dolores Umbridge, though their devotion to her wavers slightly when Firenze is made the second Divination professor.

In book seven during Voldemort's attack on Hogwarts she is attacked by Greyback but Hermione blasts him off and she is left feebly stirring, and it is left unknown whether she either died of her injuries sustained or was healed.

Lavender Brown was played by Jennifer Smith in Prisoner of Azkaban, but was recast and will be played by Jessie Cave in the sixth film, Half-Blood Prince.