It's because of the surname Brown that people picture her as tanned.
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Having seen that picture of slughorn's class with her in the background, she doesnt look how i pictured her but she does look perfect for the part.
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Lavender Brown is black

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if you look at her pictures, she sorta looks like Amanda Bynes like in the faceeh just an opinion

Are we forgetting that Sirius' last name is Black, and he's not black. LOL
And Lupin as black? Lupin is described as being pale with sandy colored hair.

ya naw i always pictued her as blackcuz her last name is brown lolshe should be blackbut i did always picture lupin as black too.

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No this is exactly how I thought Lavender would look like. Even though they don't give a description in the book I always imagined her being white with semi-brown hair. I don't know where everyone is getting their ideas of a black lavender from but I think she is perfect. Apparently the casting crew does too because she beat more than 7000 girls for the part, many of whom I am sure were black or mexican.

Agreed. I was reading the description and thought "Woow, just how I imagined too!" I actually never imagined Ron dating such a "preppy girl". I don't know, but it doesn't feel right. Maybe because he's not the preppy girl type I guess. I've always liked Lavender, I thought her character gave more teen spirit to the book. The way she turns out to be in the sixth book disapointed me, and I think that's how they're trying to portray her.
This girl feels really weird. But if she can come up with a good Lavender, I'll give her all the credit! Go Jessie, makes us all proud xD :]

this girl looks more like how i imagined luna lovegood esp her main imdb pic

What the original poster said is exactly how I also saw Lavender as. This girl don't feel right.

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Yea i agree. I saw her with tan skin and really dark hair. It's weird how most of us agree on this, without a discription in the book. Idk its weird!

o111cr this:
http://www.morphthing.com/image/3408775-Polaroid-Pictures-391-and-Evan -Rachel-Wood?key=623e203c76b352c8f6a9dcc67e98d14d

i imagined lavender to look like this:
http://www.morphthing.com/image/3408617-flower-and-Anna-Paquin?key=738 f17b9f44e9fefe0255a838e5d6edf&done=1

Yeah I thought she was BLACK also it's just really confusing because they do say Jennipher Smith the girl from POA was Lavender Brown and she's black
This is just like Cirque Du freak they say in the book that the girl named Debbie is played by a Black girl but when it comes time for casting they choose to make her a White girl with blonde hair. WTF are people just afraid of interracial mixing.

I thought Lavender was Black too! I guess I just assumed that she was because it seems like the Weasley's have a thing for Black folks. One of the twins asked Angelina to the Yule Ball, Ginny ends up dating Dean, the twin's best friend is Lee Jordan, and Ron was dating a Black girl (or so I thought anyway)
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In response to jawsaints, there's already a black character, Angelina. But anyway, thats insignificant. It was never assumed that Parvati and Lavender were ethnic - it was
stated
that Parvati was and Lavender was never described. Seeing as someones race really isn't significant (in a way that it doesn't change their personality, everyone's equal despite race etc), I doubt that JKR would've aimed to have the equal numbers of black boys and girls. I'm not trying to start an argument here, just stating that I doubt she would make Lavender black to stand opposite Dean Thomas.
Anyway, in the first 5 films, there wasn't
really
a Lavender Brown cast. Jennifer Smith (I think that was her name?) was an extra, and the director told her that she could call herself Lavender. She wasn't specifically cast for that part as Lavender's role was so insignificant in the first five films. So they aren't really recasting, mostly just casting. Does that make sense?
But, back to Jessie. She is pretty much just how I pictured Lavender. Pretty little blonde girl. Why else would Ron like her? Clearly he wasn't interested in her
personality
, lol. But yeah, good casting!
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It's funny, I pictured Lavender the exact same way, as the character from "Matilda".
But black or white, I don't mind. I think Jessie Cave should be just fine.

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im not sure why but I always pictured lavender as black or white with dark brunette hair and dark eyes.
she doesn't look the way i pictured lavender, but maybe her acting will make her more lavender like! she is pretty,though
can't wait to see the movie!

Isnt the Lavender character in all the previous movies black? she was the black girl to stand opposite dean thomas, to balance the races of the characters, but seriously, isnt lavender black? i mean it is not specifically stated, but it is assumed that bothe parvati and lavender are ethnic, to make 1 black girl, i asian, i white girl and (2 never stated), i assume as a matter of chracters they were going to be 2 white girls, probaably ones later inserted in to the story, but seriously now, how is lavender white now?

Uhmm.. I thought she was supposed to be black too. I don't think I'm gonna see this one. I'm more than a little disappointed.
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