List of minor Gryffindor characters

|The following are minor fictional characters from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling in Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For other Gryffindor characters, see Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, and Minerva McGonagall. The Gryffindor House ghost, Nearly Headless Nick, is listed in the Hogwarts ghosts article.

Lavender Brown

Lavender Brown (born 1980) shared a dormitory in Gryffindor Tower with Hermione Granger and Parvati Patil. Lavender was a close friend of Parvati and attended the Yule Ball with Seamus Finnigan in their fourth year. She and Parvati seemed to enjoy the same classes and shared many common interests. The two also seemed to have a reasonably close relationship with Professor Trelawney, comforting and supporting her in her various crises.

Lavender initially believed the Ministry of Magic's smear campaign against Harry Potter, but later joined Dumbledore's Army, attending all meetings. When the Blast-Ended Skrewts run amok in the pumpkin patch during a Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Lavender was one of the few students who helped round them up rather than take cover in Hagrid's hut.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Lavender and Ron Weasley began dating, and she gave him the tacky nickname of "Won-Won" (much to Harry's relief, Ron never called her "Lav-Lav" in return). Ron, on the other hand, was not particularly amorous of Lavender himself, but he maintained the relationship in order to instill jealousy in Hermione, and to prove that he could "snog" people if he wanted to; his two best friends had long already experienced their first kiss. Lavender became jealous of Ron's friendship with Hermione, and finally split up with him when she saw him and Hermione leaving Harry's dormitory together. She had mistakenly believed that they had been alone together in there, as Harry was secretly present under his Invisibility Cloak.

Lavender was listed on Rowling's notes for students in Harry Potter's year as a pure-blood. However, the current accuracy of those notes is dubious due to their age and inconsistencies between them and certain canon information.

She was gravely injured in the Battle of Hogwarts, when the werewolf Fenrir Greyback rushed into the Great Hall to attack her, but Hermione saved her by hitting Greyback with a Stunning Spell. At that point, she was moving feebly (meaning she was alive at that point), but it is unknown if she actually survived the battle, Rowling will most probably state whether she either survived or was killed in a later date.

Colin and Dennis Creevey

Template:HP character Colin and Dennis are Muggle-born: their father is a Muggle milkman. Colin is portrayed as an excitable character, delighted at the discovery that he is a wizard and retaining the Muggle habit of taking photographs of memorable people, objects and events. He indulges this habit throughout his first year at Hogwarts, often pursuing Harry for pictures to send home to his family. Harry found Colin's constant attention irksome. Colin is in the same year as Ginny Weasley, and in Harry's second year at Hogwarts he fell victim to the Basilisk released from the Chamber of Secrets by the unwitting Ginny. Fortunately, however, he was saved by his camera: he avoided direct exposure to the Basilisk's fatal stare and suffered only medium-term, curable petrification.

Dennis is Colin's younger brother by two years, and, like Colin, is in Gryffindor house. He has a very similar personality to his brother and upon his arrival at Hogwarts, can hardly contain his excitement about having fallen out of his boat and into the lake (he was pushed back in by the giant squid). Both Creeveys joined Harry Potter's Defence Against the Dark Arts movement christened Dumbledore's Army ("the D.A."), but neither were involved in the battle at the Department of Mysteries which took place in Colin's fourth year and Dennis's second year at Hogwarts.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Colin Creevey is killed by Death Eaters when he apparently returns to Hogwarts, disregarding Hogwart's new rule against Muggle-born students and Minerva McGonagall's specific instructions for underage wizards to evacuate the castle, because he has decided to fight. His body is recovered by Oliver Wood and Neville, while Harry (who witnesses the event invisibly) remarks how small he is in death.

Seamus Finnigan

Template:HP character Seamus Finnigan (born c. 1980), an Irish wizard, has sandy hair and is a huge Quidditch fan. He shares his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and best friend Dean Thomas.

He is present at the Quidditch World Cup, supporting Ireland against Bulgaria. Seamus supports the Kenmare Kestrels in club Quidditch. His best friend at Hogwarts is Dean Thomas, and in the Deathly Hallows, Seamus showed the most excitement when Dean returned, jumping up to embrace him. He attended the Yule Ball in his fourth year with Lavender Brown. His mother is a witch; his father is a Muggle, who only found out his wife's secret after the marriage. This was "a bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out."

Like Lavender, when the Blast-Ended Skrewts run amok in Hagrid's pumpkin patch, Seamus helps round them up rather than take cover in Hagrid's hut like Draco Malfoy and the Slytherins. Seamus was influenced by his mother and by the The Daily Prophet's smear campaign against Harry but offered his apologies later on. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Seamus refused to allow his mother to take him home before Dumbledore's funeral.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he returns to Hogwarts to aid DA against Snape and the Carrows, and finally takes part in The Battle of Hogwarts where he and Hannah Abbott were almost killed by Voldemort but were saved by Harry's shield charm. He also saved Harry, Ron, and Hermione's lives when he, along with Ernie Macmillan and Luna Lovegood, cast their Patronus to ward off hundreds of Dementors. His Patronus took the form of a Fox. After the battle, he is not seen or heard of anymore, but his name is not listed among those who died, so he most likely survived. Seamus was first mentioned in the seventh book when Neville explains that his own injuries were nothing - Seamus's were far worse. He is first seen when Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione enter the room of requirement; where Seamus's face is bruised so badly, Harry failed to recognize him until he spoke.

In the Harry Potter films, Seamus is portrayed by Devon Murray and is depicted as having a penchant for blowing things up.

The name in Ireland is usually spelled with a fada ("Séamus").

In the films, Seamus is seen having a much closer friendship with Harry than in the books. While Ron is of course with Harry during all of the major plot scenes, Harry and Seamus are often shown talking together.

Parvati Patil

Template:HP character Parvati Patil (born 1979 or 1980) is a Gryffindor girl in Harry Potter's year. She has an identical twin sister named Padma, who is in Ravenclaw. Parvati and her sister are of Indian descent. Patil is a common Maratha surname in the state of Maharashtra, India. Pārvatī is the name of a Hindu Goddess, consort of Shiva and daughter of the Himalayas. In Dean Thomas' opinion, Parvati and her sister are the best-looking girls in their year.

Parvati shares her dormitory with Hermione Granger and her best friend, Lavender Brown. Parvati attended the Yule Ball with Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but spent most of the evening with a boy from Beauxbatons due to the fact that Harry did not pay much attention to her and did not like dancing. She wore dress robes of shocking pink, gold bracelets, and had gold braided into her hair.

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Sitara Shah as Parvati in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Parvati's favourite class is Divination with Professor Trelawney, although she also enjoys Care of Magical Creatures classes when they are taught by Professor Grubbly-Plank as opposed to Rubeus Hagrid. Her greatest fear is mummies (although this could be translated as a fear of death or a fear of being buried alive), as evidenced by her Boggart in the third book (her fear was changed to a cobra in the film adaptation). On numerous occasions, she is seen asking questions to professors and arguing with Dolores Umbridge.

Parvati and Padma join Dumbledore's Army in their fifth year and at one point, she produced such a good Reductor Curse that she reduced a table to dust. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Parvati has to convince her parents not to take her and her sister out of Hogwarts, although they do return home the morning after Albus Dumbledore's death. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parvati duels with Travers, but helps Dean Thomas by using a Body-Bind Curse on Antonin Dolohov, after he attempted to retaliate at Dean for stunning another Death Eater. In the aftermath of the battle, the Patil sisters are not listed among the fallen, so they have most likely survived.

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

Dean Thomas

Template:HP Character Dean Thomas (born 1979 or 1980) is noted for being good at drawing and forging signatures. He shares his dormitory with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and his best friend, Seamus Finnigan. Dean enjoys Defence Against the Dark Arts classes and his favourite teacher is Professor Lupin. Dean is impressed by Lupin's skill and stands up for him on numerous occasions when arguing with Dolores Umbridge.

Dean was born to a Muggle mother and a father who, though a wizard, never revealed this to his family. Unbeknownst to Dean, his father was killed by the Death Eaters when he refused to join them, and Dean was raised by his mother and stepfather.[1] Dean has several half-brothers and sisters. It is mentioned that Dean is a fan of the football team West Ham United. In Book 7, Dean says that "my dad left my mum when I was a kid" (p. 295).

Along with Seamus and Lavender, Dean helps round up the Blast-Ended Skrewts when they run amok in Hagrid's pumpkin patch during a Care of Magical Creatures lesson, rather than take cover in Hagrid's hut. He also believes Harry and Dumbledore when they insist that Lord Voldemort has returned and is one of the members of Dumbledore's Army in his fifth year. Dean's worst fear is a creeping severed hand.

At the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dean begins dating Ginny Weasley, however, they break up before the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry, who wanted to date Ginny himself, actually was partially (if inadvertantly) responsible; while Harry was invisibly sneaking out of the Gryffindor common room under the influence of Felix Felicis, the luck potion, he accidentally brushed Ginny as she and Dean passed through the portrait hole. Ginny thought that Dean was trying to help her through the portrait hole, became annoyed with him and they start to fight.

In the sixth book Dean becomes a reserve Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team after Katie Bell is injured.

Dean's role is expanded in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Dean's presumed muggle-born status put him on the run from the Ministry, which is rounding up Muggle-born wizards and witches upon Voldemort's orders. Harry, Ron, and Hermione first come across him during their mission as they eavesdropped on his conversation with other runaways. Later in the story, Dean is caught by Fenrir Greyback and carried off to the Malfoy Manor along with the trio. They are rescued by Dobby the house-elf, and Dean is sent to Bill Weasley's cottage for protection. After his rescue, he spends months with Luna at Bill's cottage; they appear to get on all right, though as with Harry and the others, Dean appears bemused by some of her comments. They do, however, grow more comfortable with each other as evidenced by Dean pointedly taking Luna by the hand before heading out to prepare for The Battle of Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Though he loses his wand earlier in the book, Dean is able to obtain another one during the battle. He duels with Antonin Dolohov and uses a Stunning Spell on another Death Eater after the Death Eater is distracted by the presence of someone under a invisibility cloak - which was in fact Harry, Ron and Hermoine. Dolohov attempts to retaliate but Parvati Patil uses a Body-Bind Curse.

Dean is a half-blood and by Book seven appears to be aware of this, but with no ability to prove it (his father may have died at Voldemort's hands) he spent the book on the run. Dean's appearances appear to be showing what is happening to Muggle-borns in the wizarding world, arrested or forced on the run. (Hermione is of course already on the run for working with Harry, and so her blood status is not her main problem).

In the UK edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Dean Thomas is not mentioned during the Sorting ceremony. He is, however, correctly sorted in the American edition as a Gryffindor, just after Harry and before Lisa Turpin. According to Rowling, her UK editor felt the chapter was too long and had to trim it down with any extraneous detail he could find.

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

Dean was originally slated to be named Gary.

On July 25 2007 J.K. Rowling announced that she intended to write a sort of Harry Potter Encyclopedia, where many things from the seven books would be explained in greater detail, and the lives of many minor characters fleshed out. She specifically mentioned that Dean Thomas had a far more interesting story than the books had implied. She has stated in previous interviews that the discovery of Dean's half-blood past was an original subplot for The Chamber of Secrets, but was scrapped due to time constraints and because she felt it didn't fit with the rest of the book.

Romilda Vane

Template:HP character Romilda Vane (born c. 1982) is a minor character, first introduced in the 6th book of the Harry Potter series. She had developed a serious crush on Harry Potter, but is extremely disappointed to discover he does not respond to her feelings. She has long black hair, dark eyes and a prominent chin. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she is a Gryffindor fourth year, meaning she must have entered Hogwarts at the time of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Romilda has a celebrity crush on Harry Potter throughout the sixth book, but unlike previous characters such as Colin and Dennis Creevey and Ginny Weasley, whose hero-worshiping of Harry is not only harmless but often amusing, Romilda sometimes crosses the line. She introduces herself to Harry on the Hogwarts Express and invites him to join the group in her compartment, but not without implying that Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, with whom Harry is sitting, are uncool. Harry stands up for his friends and refuses her invitation. Later in the year she attempts to trick Harry into taking a love potion, but while he takes the box of chocolates she gives him, he is wise enough not to eat them (He is forewarned by Hermione that some girls, including Romilda, are planning to induce him with a love potion). Several months later, Ron Weasley accidentally eats several of Romilda's doctored chocolates and is affected by the love potion, forcing Harry to take him to Professor Slughorn for an antidote — which leads to Ron being poisoned by accident. Following Gryffindor's Quidditch victory towards the end of the book, Romilda is outraged to see Harry kissing Ginny Weasley, whom he starts dating shortly thereafter. Later in the book, Ginny says that Romilda wants to know if Harry has a Hippogriff tattooed on his chest. Ginny jokingly answers that it is a Hungarian Horntail, claiming it to be "much more macho" than a hippogriff.

Others

It has been speculated that, just as there are five students in the Gryffindor boys' dormitory, there are five in the girls' dormitory. Thus, in addition to Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown, and Hermione Granger, there are a further two unnamed girls. There is no solid support in the books for this; most notably, there has never been a reference to any such girls.

Outside the books, however, are circumstantial suggestions that the girls may exist, or, at least, have once existed in Rowling's plans. In the early years of the conception of the novels, Rowling intended Harry's year to contain 40-42 students, which, if divided evenly, would result in 5 students per dormitory, with the final two, if they are not mistakes on the list, then allocated into one of the houses. Some of this information has since been changed (for example, Queenie Greengrass became Daphne Greengrass); if the names and numbers are still valid, however, there are certainly unattributed students who could potentially be further members of Hermione's dormitory.

In 2004, Rowling was asked in an interview, Who are the two 'unknown Gryffindor girls' in Harry's year? Her reply was, Oh, I've just understood what you mean. I haven't got the notebook to hand and I can't remember! That's terrible. I'll try and remember before the end of the chat! However, she failed to address the issue again that day.

The question of the missing students was later again addressed to Rowling, this time by The Leaky Cauldron webmistress Melissa Anelli:

Anelli: Have you discovered the two missing Gryffindor students?
Rowling: (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 [web] site.

No such information has yet appeared on Rowling's website, nor has she made any further elucidation regarding the existence or non-existence of any further Gryffindor girls in Harry's year.

See also

• Minor Hufflepuffs
• Minor Ravenclaws
• Minor Slytherins
• Minor characters associated with Quidditch
• Students in Harry Potter's year
• List of characters in the Harry Potter books

External links

• 'Wizards & Witches A to Z' from The Harry Potter Lexicon website