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.
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Template:HP Character 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.
Template:HP Character Of Irish descent, Seamus Finnigan (first name pronounced SHAY-mus) 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 Muggle 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.
Template:HP Character 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.
Template:HP Character 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.
Although 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.
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:
Ten "worst fears" (nine for students, one for Professor Lupin, none for Harry) are created by a Boggart in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which is the first slight indication of the girls' existence.