User blog comment:Rachel6598/Lavender Brown/@comment-1590788-20110804181618

The sixth book is the first source which told us that Lavender Brown must be a caucasian girl. In the books before her looks are not described. I think Jo didn't say the film producers that she sees Lavender as a caucasian girl. She was in the beginning a supporting actress, so I think that is the cause they thought they could use a coloured girl as well. But in the sixth book Jo wrote what Harry Potter saw: The two hands of Ron Weasley and Lavender Brown were so much intertwined that Harry could not say which hands belong to whom. We know Ron Weasley is a caucasian boy, so Lavender Brown had to be caucasian, too, and not coloured, because otherwise there would be no difficulty to see which hand belongs to whom.