Gryffindors in Harry Potter's year

This article is about minor Harry Potter characters who are Gryffindor
students in the same year as Harry. See Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom and
Ron Weasley for information on them.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Lavender Brown

Harry Potter character
Jennifer Smith as Lavender Brown in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lavender Brown
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Unknown
Eye colour	Unknown
House	Gryffindor
Parentage	Pure-blood
Loyalty	Dumbledore's Army
Film portrayer	Jennifer Smith
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Lavender Brown is a close friend of Parvati Patil. Lavender
enjoys the same subjects as Parvati: Divination and Care of Magical Creatures
with Professor Grubbly-Plank. Lavender attended the Yule Ball with Seamus
Finnigan. During the Ministry's smear campaign against Harry Potter, Lavender
initially believed it, but later joined Dumbledore's Army. She shares her
dormitory at Hogwarts with Hermione Granger and Parvati Patil.

Lavender learns of the death of her pet rabbit, Binky, in Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban. Since Binky was killed by a fox and she got the
news the day Professor Trelawney said the thing she was dreading would happen,
Lavender has been convinced of Trelawney's powers. Hermione Granger, however,
pointed out that Lavender only learned of Binky's death on the sixteenth
of October and that it didn't really occur on that day, plus the fact that
because the news had been very much a shock, she couldn't have been dreading it.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Lavender comes to fancy Ron
Weasley, whom she nicknames "Won-Won," and they begin dating (despite
Trelawney's having warned her close friend Parvati Patil in their 3rd year to
"beware a red-headed man"), although it may be better described as "perpetual
snogging." She gets very jealous of the amount of attention Ron and Hermione
Granger still pay to each other. At first during their relationship, Hermione
doesn't speak to Ron, but after they make-up Lavender becomes increasingly
paranoid. Eventually she dumps Ron after seeing him come out of the boys'
dormitory with Hermione (Harry leaves the dormitory along with them, albeit
covered by his Invisibility Cloak). Ron, however, is not disappointed. He is in
fact pleased that he did not have to dump Lavender because she was becoming
quite clingy and Ron was getting tired of her always wanting to be with him.
Lavender Brown shows she is upset about her break-up with Ron when she sees him
brushing off fake snow flakes off Hermione's shoulders. She bursts out crying at
the sight.

 

Seamus Finnigan

Harry Potter character
Seamus Finnigan
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Sandy
Eye colour	Unknown
House	Gryffindor
Parentage	Half-blood
Loyalty	Dumbledore's Army
Film portrayer	Devon Murray
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Pronounced Shay-Mus. Of Irish descent, Seamus Finnigan has
sandy hair and is a huge Quidditch fan. He has quite a strong accent. He shares
his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and
best friend Dean Thomas. He goes to the Yule Ball with Lavender Brown.

He watches the Quidditch World Cup Final with the Weasleys and Harry, of
course supporting Ireland against Bulgaria. His mother is a witch and his father
didn't find out until after the marriage.

Due to the influence of his mother and The Daily Prophet, Seamus did
not fully trust Harry at the start of their fifth year, which caused a lot of
tension in the dormitory, lessons, and common room. However, he changed his mind
after reading Harry's interview in The Quibbler and went to his first and
only DA meeting. At the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince he
has a loud argument with his mother concerning her wishes to remove him from
Hogwarts – she eventually agrees that he can stay back for Dumbledore's funeral.
This seems to indicate that Seamus' respect for Dumbledore may have been greater
than he indicated in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix.

Seamus is played in the Harry Potter movies by Devon Murray.

Parvati Patil

Harry Potter character
Parvati Patil, played by Shefali Chowdhury, shown behind Harry and in her Yule Ball dress from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Parvati Patil
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Black
Eye colour	Dark Brown
House	Gryffindor
Parentage	Unknown
Loyalty	Dumbledore's Army
Film portrayer	Sitara Shah/Shefali Chowdhury
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Parvati Patil is a dark-haired Gryffindor girl in Harry's
year. She has an identical twin sister named Padma, who is in Ravenclaw. She
went with Harry to the Yule Ball, since his crush, Cho Chang, was going with
Cedric Diggory. When Harry and Ron tell their dormmates Dean, Seamus and Neville
that they are going to the ball with the Patil twins, a noticeably envious Dean
mutters about how Harry and Ron managed to get "the best-looking girls in the
year." Parvati wore shocking pink dress robes and bangles with her hair in a
plait braided with gold. Parvati and her twin joined Dumbledore's Army in their
fifth year. She shares her dormitory at Hogwarts with Hermione Granger and
Lavender Brown.

Parvati's best friend is Lavender. They share similar interests in
Divination, boys, and unicorns. Although sometimes Parvati, like Harry, can get
quite tired and embarrassed of Lavender's behaviour when she goes out with Ron
Weasley, in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Her favourite class
is Divination with Professor Trelawney, although she also enjoyed her Care of
Magical Creatures lessons when they were taught by Professor Grubbly-Plank.

Also in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the wizarding
Britain's state of civil war had the Patil twins' parents worried and after the
attack on Katie Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Patil seriously considered taking the girls
out of Hogwarts. Parvati convinced them not to, and they relented after no more
incidents like Katie's happened, though on the morning after Dumbledore's
passing both twins were gone. Their parents had come to collect them overnight
and neither of them stayed for Dumbledore's funeral.

Parvati and her sister's names and appearance in the movies implies they are
of Indian descent. Patil is a common surname in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Parvati is the name of a Hindu Goddess, consort of Lord Shiva and daughter of
the Himalayas.

Parvati is played by Sitara Shah in the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban and by Shefali Chowdhury in Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire.

 

Dean Thomas

Harry Potter character
Alfred Enoch as Dean Thomas in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Dean Thomas
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Black
Eye colour	Brown
House	Gryffindor
Parentage	Half-blood (believes he is Muggle-born)
Loyalty	Dumbledore's Army
Film portrayer	Alfred Enoch
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Dean Thomas is a Gryffindor noted for being good at drawing
and forging signatures. He shares his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter,
Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Seamus Finnigan, the last being his best
friend.

Dean comes from a Muggle family, evidenced by his being a fan of the football
team West Ham United. Having no clue about which courses to choose for his third
year, he simply closed his eyes and pointed his wand at the list. JKR revealed
on her website that Dean was raised by his mother and stepfather, because his
original father left the family when he was young. Dean was raised with a number
of half-brothers and sisters. When Dean got the letter inviting him to Hogwarts,
his mother wondered if his father had been a wizard. The truth, which they never
discovered, is that Dean's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to
join them. Dean was set to learn this information throughout his school career,
but Rowling scrapped it in an early draft of Chamber of Secrets.

"I suppose in some ways I sacrificed Dean's voyage of discovery for
Neville's, which is more important to the central plot."

Given that this information has never appeared in the actual novels, it is
considered canon because it has been mentioned on JKR's official website.

Dean is the best friend of Seamus Finnigan, but unlike Seamus, he believed
Harry's claim of Voldemort's return during their fifth year at Hogwarts and was
one of the members of the D.A.. He considers Parvati and Padma Patil to be the
best looking girls in their year.

At the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix he begins
dating Ginny Weasley, however, they break up before the end of Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince. According to Hermione, their relationship had
been "a bit rocky for ages" but the final break-up was supposedly triggered by a
misunderstanding instigated by Felix Felicis drunk by Harry Potter, who starts
fancying Ginny in HBP.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Dean also becomes a reserve
Chaser after Katie Bell's accident with the necklace.

Some have speculated that Dean Thomas was named after the Forest of Dean,
which, like many names in the Harry Potter series, lies in the county of
Rowling's birth, Gloucestershire.

He is played by Alfie Enoch in the Harry Potter movies.

Missing Gryffindor Girls

According to J.K. Rowling, there are ten children in Harry's year in each
house at Hogwarts. All five Gryffindor boys (Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville
Longbottom, Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan), and three Gryffindor girls
(Hermione Granger, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown) are accounted for, but the
"two missing Gryffindor girls" have not yet been stated by Rowling. In an
interview with MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron, she
said she will put them on her official website:

MA: Yeah. Have you discovered the two missing Gryffindor students?

JKR: [Covers eyes] Ohh! [Frustrated.] I was going to go and get that for
you, I'm sorry I haven't got it, I'll put it on my site.