Why Was Lavender Brown Played by 3 Different Actresses?

Harry Potter Theory

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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One of the strangest things about Lavender Brown’s character is that she was portrayed by not one, not two, but three different actresses over the course of the films — changing between Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and finally Half-Blood Prince. But what’s the reason behind all of this? Why was she played by 3 different people? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.3	Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.
1:13.4	Today we're discussing lavender brown.
1:15.7	If you can't remember who Lavender is, she's in the Harry Potter series from the very
1:19.2	beginning.
1:20.2	In fact, she's mentioned very early on in the very first book, and her face is first
1:24.5	shown in the film adaptation of the Chamber of Secrets.
1:33.3	She was a pure blood witch that started at Hogwarts in the same year as Harry, Ron and Hermione, and she actually shared a Hogwarts house with the trio, being the very first new Gryffindor of her year.
1:39.3	But Brown, Lavender, became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded
1:44.6	with cheers. And because they were Gryffindors, Lavender even shared a dormitory with Hermione,
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