Why Was Lavender Brown Played by 3 Different Actresses?
Harry Potter Theory
Harry Potter Theory
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
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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?
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| 0:53.3 | The following podcast contains audio |
| 0:55.9 | extracted from videos on the Harry Potter Theory YouTube channel. |
| 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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